That's exactly what I did with those toffies during my last reserve exercises. Stuck em in my pocket and had one-two whenever I felt like it. About the lack of cutlery. Every estonian soldier is issued a metals set of knife, fork and spoon and a swedish style stainless steel cooking set with spirits based heater. There are several different menus and some had canned rye bread in them instead of crackers. I strongly preferred those ones.
The main thing with this food is that the meals are big, but aren't meant to be eaten all at once. Usually u eat like a can of food and the rest is snack along the way. Otherwise, good to see Estonian MREs be appreciated :)
Back in 2016 when i served, our MRE-s only had canned food so we usually had around 3 cans of food and one water based food that was usually breakfast. Those MRE-s weighed a ton but were quite good.
Yes, can agree. Better than average and.. I remember when the dry packages came. They were all cool and fun, but in the end kinda.. kinda.. stale. :D In other words, if you have time to cook, then the canned ones were superb. reischfleisch with a bit of salt pepper and water - super.
Back in the service those sweets were a life saver, candy bars from store and halva from the MRE. The plus side was you could just stuff your face on the go, no need to warm them up and it's fast energy. Didn't eat any sweets for like 5 years after the service, now I maybe have something sweet every other week or so.
@@macarnisadventure3910I can guarantee that during manoevuers, an infantryman will use all of that energy. Again, this is for a full 24 hours, and a 40km overland with full load, with the occasional fire-and-movement. is among the things a soldier might be expected to do. Yes, for the hurry-up-and-wait days, it's too much. But those days are usually at an FOB, with DFAC provided by the base. Same for the motorized guys (comms, arty etc). They usually have these packs as backup rations in the truck for when they suddenly have to deploy far from the base of operations, and are expected to last more than 24 hours in this situation.
Halvah has different variations in different packs, I cant recall exacltly how many, but I think there was atleast vanilla, rum and I guess caramell variations.
Ive not been to the military yet but oh my god I laughed when I saw the "rannarootsi" canned meat :D. They're a known local (aka made in Estonia and produces for Estonia) company. Now in the year 2022 I think the best meat products come from Liivimaa Lihaveis. Of course you can find some farms for that well marbled meat if you're a bbq fanatic. I wouldn't mind the food there at all but I'm not really fit for military and despite them telling me this every evaluation they keep giving me a new date. It's driving me crazy, have a lot of mental stuff I've been fixing my whole life and am still fixing.
I served 5 years in the U.S. active duty Army. I didn't know what I was doing and what I wanted in life and I struggled a lot. I was 24 when I enlisted. After deploying to Iraq and serving my 5 years, I knew what I wanted out of life and what direction I needed to go. The Army definitely helped me grow up, gave me confidence as well as learning a lot about myself.
Don't worry and just go for it. In the end, what helped me, was that most people you serve time with are in exactly the same shit you are in and have all their own issues. Eventually You just push through and find "Conscription was/is way easier than civil life".
"World's smallest army in Estonia" - Mate, we're next to Russia. The country may be small in population, but you best believe the army is prepared for some serious mobilisation. Depending on whether you count in active reserves (not even considering a full mobilisation), Ireland has a smaller army. And by capita in active service, US and UK and Poland are positively pacifist. 😂
