Not sure if you older guys got the Charms candies in your MRE's but they are in them today and they are legendary for bringing bad fortune if you eat them, here's a few of the phenomenon’s I have witnessed.

1. On a deployment to Yuma for workup's to OIF my Gunny dared fate claiming "he never had bad luck with charms" and made all of us eat them. The network we had spent all week setting up went down for two days.

2. In MCT a few PFC's thought they were above the curse of the Charms candies and ate them right before a 6 mile hump...It went from sunny to all out rain, the entire hump.

Just a few occasions I can remember of the Charms curse. Anyone else have any similar stories?

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Not sure if you older guys got the Charms candies in your MRE's

Awwwww!!!!! This just ain't right! I guess reality is setting in. Those of us that ate c-rats are?????????? Dust?

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2. In MCT a few PFC's thought they were above the curse of the Charms candies and ate them right before a 6 mile hump...It went from sunny to all out rain, the entire hump.

Ok, I'll play devil's advocate.

If this is a curse for those who ate them, did it rain only on the PFC's?

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Originally posted by ipscone:

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2. In MCT a few PFC's thought they were above the curse of the Charms candies and ate them right before a 6 mile hump...It went from sunny to all out rain, the entire hump.

Ok, I'll play devil's advocate.

If this is a curse for those who ate them, did it rain only on the PFC's?

I wish..Mock it all you want, the Charms curse exists.

Guess we weren't as cursed as you.

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C-Rats

Three “M” (meat) components, which offered 10 different varieties of meat entrees.

Three “B” (bread) components consisting of:

• B-1: a unit of 5 crackers, a packet of soluble coffee, a packet of powdered milk, a packet of granulated sugar, a cocoa disc, and a 1.5 oz. tin of jam.
  
• B-2: a unit of 5 crackers, soluble coffee, powdered milk, granulated sugar, 1 cookie sandwich, and 1 chocolate fudge disc.
  
• B-3: a unit of 5 crackers, soluble coffee, powdered milk, granulated sugar, 2 cookie sandwiches, and a 1.5 oz. tin of jam.
  
• B-4: a unit of pre-mixed and compressed cereal.

One 12 oz. can of fruit.

One sundries can containing the accessory packet: (Gum, toilet paper, a P-38 can opener, granulated salt, and a flat wooden spoon) and the cigarette packet: (one 9-pack of cigarettes and a book of matches).

Yep! No charms. I think our curse was Lima Beans.

I can't remember charms but I sure do remember one of the best part of the MRE was the two chicklets(gum).

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Originally posted by betiostripe:
I can't remember charms but I sure do remember one of the best part of the MRE was the two chicklets(gum).

Yeah the chicklets were really good, espcially if you had a long watch.

I ate Charms a few times within the last 4 years. I don't remember anything bad happening.

When ever I got the chance to bring my men into DaNang at the China Beach PX, We would all stock up on CHARMS hard candy balls. I never had anyone lost or hurt, the whole time I was there. Maybe I ate all the good luck CHARMS and you dummies got all the bad luck ones!

Lucky charms? "We don't got no lucky charms"

The c-rat favorite was pan coated disc (nestles style choc) sandwiched between two jelly smeared crackers. Dipping the chocolate coconut cookie in jelly was a close second.

Everyone's all time favorites were peaches and pound cake or fruit cocktail with pound cake.

Ham and mother frickers (lima beans) layed in your stomach forever while beans and franks gave everyone gas. There was always a scramble to avoid both of those.

The best were the round meat discs you fried on the top of the c-rat can you peeled back to make a fryer. Sure burned off a lot of grease otherwise you were choking that shiat down hard ha ha ha ha ha. Gag me!

Remember the heat tabs? Suckers smelled like tear gas so the platoon sergeants were yelling at everyone to stop pulling the c-4 out of the back of the claymores to cook.

And don't leave c-rat cases and water laying around unguarded ... boys had to do what boys had to do.

lol Mars bars in MRE's were great...nice and chalky!

Charms were good too.....especially when they stuck together!

ok, not really to the above...

I think I am going to find and eat an MRE for Veterans day...as a SMALL, SMALL, SMALL show of sacrifice for those in harms way and those who did not return...since I can go eat whatever I want anytime, unlike those who have passed on and are in harms way right now...plus I like em.

The trick with MREs is creativity. Putting a whole packet of cheese into chilli (or anything else that is worth heating) is also a plus. I remember stocking up on canned Spaghetti-Os before going out to the field. I used the MRE heater and a beverage bag to heat the
Spaghetti-Os. Yum.

I enjoyed the old c-rations, Ate them everyday for a 45 day field trip, c-ration stew in someones metelhelmit over a fire, just about everything was thrown in except crackers and snacks. my favorate was the ham an eggs.

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Originally posted by DuvalHMFIC:
I wish..Mock it all you want, the Charms curse exists.

I believe tankers have the same problem apricots.

"Back in the Old Corps" no candy in C-Rats as I remember, but the tins of fruit were always welcome. I'd save up the cigs that came with the Rats and try to trade them to the smokers for tins of fruit.

My favorite C-Rats, Franks and Beans:


- LarSim

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