Canadian Armed Forces receive upgraded LAV III

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besilarius

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February 08, 2013, 06:45:02 PM
Hot Dogs and Lima Beans.
These were so despised, that in I Corps in Vietnam, the Gunney Sergeants would turn the case over, and make their troopers pick one without being able to see the name.
Some guys were unhappy with the regular bayonet, which was I think about six inches long.  So they'd buy a long screwdriver, and get the machine shop to put a point on it.
Honestly saw guys fighting with those things to avoid Lima Beans and Hot Dogs.
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Longdan

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February 08, 2013, 08:42:45 PM
We had a horrible concoction called "Tuna Jumbalaya".  I cannot remember what menu number it was in
but since the field rations were thoroughly pilfered  before they got out of Ottawa (all the Steak and Onions were gone)
we got a lot.  It came in a big tin can.  The only thing it was good for - no matter how hungry you were - was
casually stuffing it into some other guy's cooking fire and waiting for it to explode.  I still remember guys from
7 Platoon running around screaming covered in burning Tuna Jumbalaya.  If a guy ate some you could smell
his marinated dead Jamaican farts a mile away.  When I was overseas in the mid 70's we sometimes got cases
of US rations.  Beans and Motherf*ckers I can remember.
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Martok

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February 09, 2013, 01:22:44 PM
Quote from: Longdan on February 08, 2013, 08:42:45 PM
We had a horrible concoction called "Tuna Jumbalaya". 
Dear god, you know just from the name that it's wrong.  Those two words should never, ever go together. 

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Longdan

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February 09, 2013, 04:32:29 PM
Quote from: Martok on February 09, 2013, 01:22:44 PM
Quote from: Longdan on February 08, 2013, 08:42:45 PM
We had a horrible concoction called "Tuna Jumbalaya". 
Dear god, you know just from the name that it's wrong.  Those two words should never, ever go together.

The subtitle was "Feast of Jamaica" or something.  That was when there were like two Jamaicans in Canada.
The recipe looks appealing http://www.recipe4all.com/recipe/Tuna-Jambalaya-1526/

but that ain't the sh*t they gave us.
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