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Fascinating stuff. A different world indeed…

The quality now days in the modern ration packs I think are a massive improvement 👌🏻 great vid mate 👍🏻

To continue. When every corner of the bergan was stuffed full. They weighed about 85lbs each not the 100lbs that everyone talks about. And we found that to last 2 weeks was not actually practical unsupported. Just thought you might be interested

In the earlyish 80's we did a patrol bergan packing exercise just to see what we could get in based on being out in the field for 2 weeks. First we laid out what we thought we needed. 200 rounds each, radio and associated kit 2 spare batteries. Hand crank battery charger. Rations for 4 guys for 2 weeks. Sleeping bags, waterproofs. Trimmed carremats, ponchos for bashers. Mess tins etc dry kit etc. And then we tried to load up the bergans and it was impossible to get everything in, so we started pareing things down, taking 2 sleeping bags, and 2 ponchos etc

When I sleep in a hammock for camping I sure need an underquilt or sleeping pad to not be cold (even by 20°C) and it also avoids mosquitos to bite my back through the fabric of the hammock. Is it not included here because it's too bulky or you really don't need it in your experience in the jungle (maybe im a cold sleeper)?

Thanks for sharing. Its nice to see nature win !

Great video and exactly how I strip my rations. Bloody hate those "energy" drinks. One thing I do is always make sure I pack my next meal in my webbing. So after breakfast, lunch goes straight in the webbing.

Hi Tom. Great vid. Love the rat packs for wild camping, quick lunch at work, etc. I don’t have the powdered drinks, either. Contain aspartame which isn’t the best for a person. Love the bin lid biscuit’s. Bungs you up, though. Saves digging a hole.😉 all the best😉👍🏾🇬🇧

Do you run courses

On my list: #1 My buddy from the buddy system (combat pairs called buddy system). While I have been out all alone under the sky in the wild and dont mind my own company, having a buddy or even the team, is a game changer. You can get better decisions, take turns on watch and tend each other injuries, them being physical or not. Brain is the #1 survival tool and two brains can be better than one at times, especially so if one of them has some kind of negative dip and the other has not. Pepping the other and getting pep talk in return when needed helps a lot. Also, if is a safety thing, like if you fall, the other can drag you to safety. Having ones strong arm ... broken, well it is another thing to have your buddy. Also, being alone can get into your soul sooner or later. It feels terrible when it hits. One can be very well trained and get very messed up in the head being alone out in the wild, Seen sturdy guys getting into problems way before they started starving for real. As for gear, it is highly situational. In Swedish winter time, a proper sleeping bag is the single most important item aside from my clothing. In the summer time, water purification tablets can help a lot and if forced to sweat a lot, so called water replacement. Gloves and extra head gear in a pocket at all times, summer or winter.

Back in the day of American C-rations in cans, we picked boxed meals at random from an upside-down case, then shoved the cans into socks for carry in our packs or pockets. If time and conditions permitted, bartering ration components was a favorite chow time activity.

As ever sound advice and examples for those who need to develop their knowledge and skills. I was ticking off what i would bin and keep as you went along, the Sag was a bin for me it's awful and the gum (a few) was a keep as a few days of this stuff and it helps clean you teeth along the way in addition to brushing when you can. These days as the knees and back are not grade 1 like a 21yr old I have swapped a lot of the wet ration for freeze dried stuff, the usual suppliers can help and likewise the US winter ration is useful as the packs are small for main bits of the meals with loads of calories as required. As you said each to their own and what works for you. Might be useful follow up video to do something on long range/long duration food supplies and how you can mix up freeze dried and wet meals to complete a task/journey/mission? I did chuckle at the bin pile here, you can just imagine some bod posted to a desk in the MOD holding their head in their hands watching you bin all the powdered drinks and excess guff, previously they'd been clapping themselves on the back for popping this stuff into the brown bag and hoping the tutti fruiti would make up for losing the mixed fruit cake in a tin! Anyhow another great video and I've told her ladyship (she loved the D-Day para jump video) later this year in the colder weather Tom is going to come up and use the woods/moors nearby to wild camp and cook an airborne stew for her and the local ladies, she wanted to know would you need any of our beef or venison.........probably not (-:

Even doing the Fan Dance in the days of tinned rat packs, I was never hungry enough to eat a whole pack of lemon dextrose…

"Screech!" I haven't heard that in years! Brought back some memories! Good skills!

Park Ranger- found you , I heard the crunching of a noodle packet! 🤣🤣🤣

Great video, you should do a video of you and some mates playing a airsoft event. Have you ever done air soft, its quite fun, I'm sure you would be good at it

hate those sporks i find compressed against a food pouch they cay damage them

As a former Para-trooper, I send my respectful greetings to all of you. Congratulations on your tribute in memory of those who jumped there 80 years ago. 🫡 Respect from Portugal 🇵🇹

Those pouches are like the Tardis. 3 mags in each is good. Would it fit if the mags have quick-pull tabs?

Well done 👏🏻 I been a paratrooper in South Africa and we spend lots of time in the bush doing exactly what you are teaching and l can say l have watched most of his videos he is exceptionally good. Thanks for your time 👍🏻

We used to keep 1 x sachet of sugar packed drink to share between the lads at the end of the water bottles to get extra salt and sugar in before night recces.

I drink the friut powder with hot water. Nice on a cold day.

I try to strip mine,similar to your way ,i do add extras ,but i guess we all do .god bless you and your family, and happy camping 🏕 😀 😊 🙏. Lee

Fantastic video mate

i bought a case of these ration packs last year. i broke them all down into their individual item categories and made a bag with all the drink powders in it , one with all the tea/coffee , one with all the snacks , one with all the main meal pouches etc etc. When i go hunting or camping i just make up a big ziplock freezer bag from all the different items i want for the time im going out. i supplement it with peak refuel or mountain house meals and a couple cans of stew or soup , can make a good 3-5 day food kit with that combo.

Great stripping video Tom. Field stripping that is. No peanut butter? Say it isn't so. Nate

We call the toilet paper from MRE's "Shit Tickets". I ate British rations when we were there in March 91'. Stayed at Malta Barracks and the Salisbury Plains. That fruit drink was definately an eye popper. 😂 Thanks for sharing Tom! 🥃🍻🪂🫡🇺🇸

I like the drinks you binned just because i don't drink tea or coffee and yes i agree that once you add the drink powder your water can't be used for other stuff but would you only have 1lt of water i don't think so. But thanks for showing the way you prep you rations made a lot of sense

Always keep the hand sanitizers if and when you need to take a dump in the field. This wasn't a issue with the old 80s rat pack ie biscuit browns AB (arse blockers) lol

The newer rations got, the more I seemed to throw away. I miss the burger and beans and hot pots. Im also one of those sadists that misses the biscuits brown and chicken paté.

95% agree, I also use the clear bags for putting a spare of undies and socks in my bergan

Great video thanks, have you tried the French army rations, gotta be the best - only my opinion 😀

Bring back bacon grill tins. The snacks in the new stuff doesn’t look far enough energy for a person throughout the daytime. I remember needing the biscuits brown and the AB with the cheese or meat paste ( both I hated but they were fuel and a bit of taste to the biscuits, just) as well as the chocolate which was always tasteless, just to keep me going till the night.

Great video as always Personally in long range i have breakfast and dinner (when you make a camp). between the two i make a mix with nuts, cashews, dried bananas and dried apricots. Definately not plums. During winter i also add raising. This keeps me on the edge and it is nutricious and easy to digest. for the latter it is better since you do not get tired and in case of an injury it is better to be on an empty stomach. for breakfast and dinner i do field strip of the MRE. In Greece we have very good and nutricious MRE but they are bulky and heavy due to the fact that they use cans. I have for dinner a can of food (usually beans with meat or grapeleaves with rise). sometimes from the supermarket i can get pasta where you only add water. I usually put a variety of cans and pasta so i can have a variety for the same reasons you mentioned not get bored. However having something new i find it that it also boosts your morale. i do not use the power tactical foods because i find them with a bad taste and sometimes it is hard to digest. i also avoid energy drinks. i find them to dehydrate me more and cause me a bad stomach. i just have with me some electrolyte pills that i only use in case of a need and in warm weather during the night. for the water bottle you mentioned lately we have the tendency to break our water portion in various containers so if one container breaks you will not loose all your water. So for example years ago the tube in my camelback broke and i lost all my water plus i couldn't replenish it and as murphy says it happened during summer with 38 degrees!!!! not pleasant. So we have our camelback and some 500 ml bottles. One of them (usually collapsable) we have it so we can use it for energy drinks or electrolytes. For breakfast i prefer biscuits and a oatmeal bar and some dried fruits and assorted with honey which gives you energy. Also sometimes i have with me from the super market rice pudding which is dehydrated. You just add water and shake it a bit. For winter is amazing and very nutricious. Now the brew kit (i know you brits love it you even had brewers in your centurion tanks back in the day). I do not drink coffee (yeap i am not normal i know). i prefer tea which doesn't smell in the field and it has a nice flavor. again i take different teas per day so i can have variety eventhough i prefer black tea. also the issue of drinking water is tiring so to have another flavor is ideal. For tabasco you mentioned yeap i do have it for the flavor and for a case of a cold (something i learned from an american cowboy guy). the US MREs are for me quite bad. tasteless and i always had issue with going to the toilet. the only things i used from the US MRE is the self heating bag, the crackers and the cookies :) By the way in the greek MRE with have also puritabs, two hexamine blocks matches and 4 cigarettes An SOP we use is the following: for everyday on the march we take 1 MRE/day. for days that we are in observation post we use 1/3 of an MRE. So for example if we have 2 days infiltration, 2 days exfiltration and 6 days OP, we will not take 10 MREs but 6 MREs, which means something like 4 less kilograms As for the toilet paper personally i prefer baby wips since i can use them for the toilet, to clean up myself (neck, groin, armpits and feet) and to remove the camouflage if needed. there are some nice swedish cutlery kits (sorry i do not remember the name) which are made from hard core plastic. they are very light,very robust and or very good quality. I trully agree that we need to organize our own MREs because it depends on what we like, the environment (eg cold weather we need more calories) and of health issues (eg allergies or intollerance in certain foods). sorry for the long message. i hope you and your viewers find it interesting and i thank you once more for the knowledge you share because in every video i learn something new.

your a good teacher. you make menial personal admin. interesting. all obvious but none the less extremely important. i just wish garibaldi's and bacon roll in tin was still a thing...(yes i hear you on the tin weight)

Hi tom m8 a personal question if ya don’t mind, other than all your hill tabs what you do to keep in shape as you can see it’s not just hill work thx?

I pretty much go along with you on this PP. I recently saw the ORP brown outer bag with a zip lock seal as opposed to the carrier bag type. I tend to keep an outer bag to put gash in (never know when you are going to next see the CQMS!).

Good vid mate 👍

Gone are the days of strange coloured Rolo's and Yorkie's :)

Old enough to have used tinned rations. Always carried tabasco sauce to give (or mask) flavours. Felt like Screech took the outer layer of tooth enamel off. Rations have improved.

a great practical video it will help a lot of folks mate