Download or read book Operational Rations of the Department of Defense NATICK PAM 30 25 9th Edition MRE Meal Ready to Eat Special Purpose Ration History of Combat Feeding Nutrition Assault and Group Rations written by Department of Defense (DoD) and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the entire family of fielded combat rations. Rations are categorized into one of four platforms: Individual Rations, Assault Rations, Group Rations, and Special Purpose Rations. Each ration is described by its purpose, major characteristics, nutritional data, and preparation requirements. The mission of the DoD Combat Feeding Program is to ensure that America's Warfighters are the best fed in the world. By investing in high risk/high payoff science and technology, and utilizing Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), CFD provides Warfighters with revolutionary combat feeding capabilities. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS * QUICK REFERENCE DATA * INTRODUCTION * HISTORY OF COMBAT FEEDING * CONTINUOUS PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT * NUTRITION * INDIVIDUAL RATIONS: * Meal, Ready-to-Eat, Individual (MRE) * ASSAULT RATIONS: * First Strike Ration (FSR) * Meal, Cold Weather/Food Packet, Long Range Patrol (MCW/LRP) * Modular Operational Ration Enhancement (MORE) * GROUP RATIONS: * Unitized Group Ration (UGR) * UGR-Heat and Serve (H&S) * UGR-A Ration * UGR-B Ration * UGR-Express (UGR-E) * Navy Standard Core Menu (NSCM) * SPECIAL PURPOSE RATIONS: * Meal, Religious, Kosher/Halal * Meal, Religious, Kosher for Passover * Meal, Tailored Operational Training (TOTM) * Go-To-War (GTW) Ration * Food Packet, Survival, General Purpose * Food Packet, Survival, Abandon Ship * Food Packet, Survival, Aircraft, Life Raft * Humanitarian Daily Ration (HDR) * Meal, Alternative Regionally Customized (MARC) * Tube Foods * Ultra High Temperature (UHT) Milk * FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS * CONTACT INFORMATION The mission of the Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Feeding Program is to sustain the Department of Defense's most decisive weapons platform - the individual Warfighter. The contemporary operating environment requires state-of-the-art combat rations to provide for the nutritional needs of the Warfighter in a wide variety of situations, from peacekeeping to high-intensity combat and contingency operations. Under the auspices of the DoD, the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) DoD Combat Feeding Directorate (CFD) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) - Troop Support employ a total life cycle approach in developing, testing, evaluating, procuring, fielding, and supporting all military rations. These rations are a vital contribution to the overall quality of life of the individual combatant.
Download or read book Special Rations for the Armed Forces written by Franz A. Koehler and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not Eating Enough Overcoming Underconsumption of Military Operational Rations written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee on Military Nutrition Research (CMNR) has reviewed many studies over the past 10 years that evaluated the acceptance and intake of military food items as pant of its continuing task of assessing the nutritional adequacy of military operational rations (see lOM, 1992a for summary). The current main operational ration, the Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRF), was developed in 1981 as the primary ration to replace the C Ration, which had been the mainstay of operational rations for many years. The MRE is compact, has a long shelf life, and can be issued directly to the individual soldier. It can be eaten with or without heating, and the 3,600 kcal provided by the total ration was designed to meet the Military Recommended Dietary Allowances (MRDAs) (see AR 40-25, 1985) for all nutrients. The MRE was initially developed for use up to 3 days at the start of military operations until other field feeding systems became available. The simplicity of this system, logistically and in terms of reduced need for food preparation personnel, led to the desire to use this ration for extended periods of time (i.e., 10 to 30 days). Field testing was thus ordered to evaluate the effectiveness of the MRE over extended periods of time. Summaries of these field studies can be found in Chapters 6 through 10 of this volume.
Download or read book Military Food Engineering and Ration Technology written by Ann H. Barrett and published by DEStech Publications, Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team from the U.S. Army's Combat Feeding Directorate at the Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, this technical volume represents a comprehensive guide to how the military designs, processes, customizes, packages and distributes highly palatable, long shelf-life food products for field personnel. The book offers new data on numerous technologies used to solve problems such as nutrient densification, lightweighting, novel thermal processing, and long-term quality preservation in delivering appetizing foods and more. Testing techniques are explained for evaluating sensory qualities of foods and their effects on physical and cognitive performance.
Download or read book Not Eating Enough written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating enough food to meet nutritional needs and maintain good health and good performance in all aspects of lifeâ€"both at home and on the jobâ€"is important for all of us throughout our lives. For military personnel, however, this presents a special challenge. Although soldiers typically have a number of options for eating when stationed on a base, in the field during missions their meals come in the form of operational rations. Unfortunately, military personnel in training and field operations often do not eat their rations in the amounts needed to ensure that they meet their energy and nutrient requirements and consequently lose weight and potentially risk loss of effectiveness both in physical and cognitive performance. This book contains 20 chapters by military and nonmilitary scientists from such fields as food science, food marketing and engineering, nutrition, physiology, psychology, and various medical specialties. Although described within a context of military tasks, the committee's conclusions and recommendations have wide-reaching implications for people who find that job-related stress changes their eating habits.
Download or read book The Effects of Prolonged Feeding Meal Ready to Eat MRE Operational Rations written by E. Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Army Natick Research and Development Center conducted a study to evaluate the effects of prolonged feeding Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) operational rations on troop effectiveness. Two combat support companies, from the 25th Infantry Division, participated in this 34-day study while they were engaged in a field training exercise at the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Island of Hawaii. One company subsisted solely on MRE rations. The other company was fed an A ration breakfast, an MRE lunch, and an A ration dinner. The MRE food items were highly rated by the troops but these foods were not consumed in sufficient quantity. Average daily caloric intake was 2,189 calories per day for the MRE group and 2,950 calories per day for the control group. The major consequences of the low food intakes were body weight loss and some vitamin and mineral intakes that were below recommended levels. The MRE group lost 8.1 pounds and the control group lost 4.6 pounds. Both groups had intakes of niacin and magnesium that were below recommended levels. The MRE group also consumed less riboflavin, calcium, and iron than recommended. The other measures that were taken to evaluate the consequences of prolonged feeding the MRE did not reveal any major differences between the two companies. Questionairres on physical symptoms, mood morale and perceptions of leadership showed only minor differences between the two companies. The performance of the two companies did not differ on a test battery of cognitive and psychomotor tasks.
Download or read book Military Nutrition Research written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Military Nutrition Research and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AR 30 22 07 24 2012 ARMY FOOD PROGRAM Survival Ebooks written by Us Department Of Defense and published by Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AR 30-22 07/24/2012 ARMY FOOD PROGRAM , Survival Ebooks
Download or read book Applying Scientific Research to Optimize Operational Rations Exploring the Possibilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the Army introduced its current primary operational ration, the Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MRE), in the early 1980's it has committed itself to continuously improving them. This has resulted in a far greater variety of menu items, and a taste that is more like what Americans are used to eating than Army Food. Unfortunately, these efforts to mirror the Standard American Diet have resulted in a nutrition program that resembles the less than optimal American diet. An American diet that is so bad, it caused the then Surgeon General C. Edward Koop in 1988 to declare that America's eating habits have contributed to the nation's most common killers such as coronary heart disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and some cancers. A diet that is also considered one of the worst in the developed world. It is in this backdrop, that this monograph takes a critical look at the Army's MRE's, and compares their mix of the fuel nutrients (protein, carbohydrates, and fats) to what nutrition scientists believe to be the optimum mix. A mix that science has shown to enhance physical performance, and prevent a large number of diseases. A mix that, once incorporated into MRE's, will ultimately contribute to soldiers being able to sustain optimal effort, for any operation, no matter how long in duration. The monograph concludes that the Army's primary operational ration is far from optimal because two of the fuel nutrients, fats and carbohydrates, are clearly not in the right quantities and mix in MRE's. Additionally, sodium levels in MRE's are way too high. Subsequently, this monograph recommends that the Army's Surgeon General's Office update their sixteen-year old nutrition directive (AR 40-25) to reflect advances made in nutrition science in the past two decades.
Download or read book Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short Term High Intensity Combat Operations written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the importance of good nutrition for physical and mental status, the Department of Defense asked the Institute of Medicine to guide the design of the nutritional composition of a ration for soldiers on short-term, high-stress missions. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-Term, High-Intensity Combat Operations considers military performance, health concerns, food intake, energy expenditure, physical exercise, and food technology issues. The success of military operations depends to a large extent on the physical and mental status of the individuals involved. Appropriate nutrition during assault missions is a continuous challenge mainly due to diminished appetites of individuals under stress. Many less controllable and unpredictable factors, such as individual preferences and climate, come into play to reduce appetite. In fact, soldiers usually consume about half of the calories needed, leaving them in a state called "negative energy balance." The consequences of being in negative energy balance while under these circumstances range from weight loss to fatigue to mental impairments. An individual's physiological and nutritional status can markedly affect one's ability to maximize performance during missions and may compromise effectiveness. With the number of these missions increasing, the optimization of rations has become a high priority.
Download or read book Subsistence Meal Ready to Eat MRE written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preservation of the industrial base for the production of MREs (Meal Ready to Eat) is at risk in light of reductions in the budget of the Department of Defense. This paper will discuss the history of rations, current production status, future requirements, and ways to ensure a viable industrial base. The intent of this paper is to describe in detail the past, present, and future field rations. Compare production concepts and address ways by which a healthy industrial base, capable of meeting DOD capacity requirements for the most common ration MRES can be obtained.
Download or read book The Meal Ready to Eat Consumed in a Cold Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meal Ready-to-Eat (MRE) was adopted into service in 1985 as a replacement for the Meal Combat Individual. It provides individual meals in field feeding environments when centralized feeding is either impractical or not possible. To determine the suitability of using the MRE in a cold environment, the validity of a supplemental pack as a cold weather energy supplement and the effectiveness of a chemical Ration Heater Pad (RHP), a 10 day field study was held in Alaska in March 1989. Approximately half of the soldiers in one Company were fed 4 MRE VIs and the other half 3 or 4 MREs VIIIs daily. In the other Company, half of the soldiers were fed 3 MRE VIs plus a supplemental pack and the other half, 3 MRE VIIIs plus a supplemental pack daily. Each soldier was given a RHP to heat his meals. Keywords: Rations; Meal Ready to Eat; Nutrient intake; Fluid intake; Supplemental pack; Cold weather.
Download or read book Nutrient Content of the Meal Ready to Eat 1988 1999 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there were many changes made in the ration components and menus of the Meal-Ready-to-Eat (MRE) during the period from 1988 to 1999, the changes did not have a great impact on the nutrient content of the ration. This report discusses each of 31 nutrients in the MRE VIII - XIX meals and how these nutrients met the Nutritional Standard for Operational Rations (NSOR). Magnesium, zinc and folate, which fell slightly below the NSOR in some versions of the ration, should be considered as part of the fortification in future MREs. It also emerged that the fat content of the ration has had a tendency to rise because 0 the increasing number of fat-containing spreads in the ration. Because this trend can be pinpointed to one group of foods, it could be corrected by decreasing the number of occurrences or package weight of these items. In a comparison to an old research study, this paper also demonstrates how the consistency of nutrient data used over time needs to be controlled in order to draw the right conclusions regarding a ration.
Download or read book Understanding Food Systems written by Ruth MacDonald and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Food Systems: Agriculture, Food Science, and Nutrition in the United States explores the complex and evolving system from which the United States gets its food. From farm, to home, and everything in-between, the authors use a scientific perspective that explains the fundamentals of agricultural production, food science, and human nutrition that will guide readers through the issues that shape our food system, including political, societal, environmental, economic, and ethical concerns. Presenting the role and impact of technology, from production to processing and safety, to cultural and consumer behavior perspectives, the book also explores the link between food systems and the history of nutrients and diet patterns, and how these influence disease occurrence. Current topics of concern and debate, including the correlations between food systems and diet-related diseases, such as obesity and diabetes are explored, as are the history and current status of food insecurity and accessibility. Throughout the text, readers are exposed to current topics that play important roles in personal food choices and how they influence components of the food system. Presents the evolution of the US food system, from historical beginnings, to current consumer and political roles and responsibilities Provides farm to fork insights on production and consumption practices in the United States Explores complex topics in call-out boxes throughout the text to help readers understand the various perspectives on controversial topics
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Download or read book Free a Marine to Fight written by Mary V. Stremlow and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marines in World War 2 Commemorative Series. Discusses how women Marines served in noncombat billets during World War 2. The title "Free a Marine to Fight" means that women Marines served in noncombat jobs so that male Marines could fight in battles. The Marines first began to recruit women after the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942. States that 17,672 women were serving in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in June 1945. Illustrated with many black and white photographs.
Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.
