The United States Military has food packages called MREs or Meals-Ready-to-Eat. They actually are not too bad and if you are out in the middle of nowhere they are a blessing. Of course these are not the most-tasty meals, nothing like a Juicy Lucy, In-and-Out Burger or Back Yard Burger meal. But when you are in a foxhole, a tank or battlefield, well they will do, they have too.

Some complain, but they are in fact a life savor when needed and FEMA was giving them out to Hurricane victims after Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Now personally I have heard from troops, soldiers and Marines, that when they are doing war games out in the desert they will throw them away as they drive in the middle of the desert. This to me is a waste unless it is a tactic to trick the enemy into thinking that you have been somewhere. In this case I think they were just wasting government money and our tax dollars.

It is kind of upsetting to hear of this, but boys will be boys I guess. After I heard about that, story I must say I was irked for about a day, but then thought what a potentially smart tactic of taking many MREs and dropping them along a road and your enemy would think a convoy came by there or was in the vicinity, as this would alter their movements and tactics. So, thinking this I quickly forgot about the problematic waste of taxpayer