MREs: Going to war with the meal you have

MREs: Going to war with the meal you have
Drawdown in hot chow hall breakfast underway in Afghanistan
By Gretel C. Kovach APRIL 5, 2013

If chow is morale, as the Marines say, then troops deployed to Afghanistan may be getting grumpier.

Because of security needs, cooks and other support staff are withdrawing from the war zone faster than service members who protect military bases. That means some who used to dish into hot meals at the chow hall now have to start their day ripping open a Meal, Ready-to-Eat packaged ration.

“As a part of the responsible drawdown of operational forces ... commanders in some areas have altered the ration cycle. The same number of meals is provided, but the type of meal may have changed. Commanders have not eliminated breakfast,” Army Maj. Adam Wojack, a spokesman for the U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force, said in an email from Kabul.

Hot breakfasts cooked by food service specialists may be a casualty of the drawdown, but no one must go hungry. “No ISAF service member is being denied any meals,” Wojack said.
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