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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Oh dud. The IMPS after 1978 are pure luxury compared to the ones prior to then. Nowhere near MRE quality but better.
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Not doubting that at all. Also managed to find a few favourites in that time. The Hungarian Goulash was absolutely stellar,but they stopped sending those shortly after my SQ course was finished. The ravioli was also pretty good. I did prefer the IMPs to most of the haybox meals we got in the field on weekend ex's. Pretty much unless it was a brigade ex, we never got to have them. Though, after 4 or 5 days of eating IMPs, there was nothing like seeing your BSM (with a greener than green OCDT or 2LT) walking up to your gun with a carton of smokes in his hand, and the young officer carrying a backpack full of Chef Boyardee or Campbell's Chunky soup.
As long as it wasn't the patrol pack (or snack pack, or whatever). Jerky or pepperettes and a bunch of sugary candy stuff. On my PLQ, we lived off of those for 2 or 3 days for part of our defensive ex and it was terrible.