Author: Harold Wesley Thatcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Franz A. Koehler
Publisher:
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Category : Operational rations (Military supplies)
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Harold Wesley Thatcher
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Harold Wesley Thatcher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891261810
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: Harold W. Thatcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Committee on Military Nutrition Research
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309556562
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Eating enough food to meet nutritional needs and maintain good health and good performance in all aspects of life--both at home and on the job--is important for all of us throughout our lives. For military personnel, however, this presents a special challenge. Although soldiers typically have a number of options for eating when stationed on a base, in the field during missions their meals come in the form of operational rations. Unfortunately, military personnel in training and field operations often do not eat their rations in the amounts needed to ensure that they meet their energy and nutrient requirements and consequently lose weight and potentially risk loss of effectiveness both in physical and cognitive performance. This book contains 20 chapters by military and nonmilitary scientists from such fields as food science, food marketing and engineering, nutrition, physiology, psychology, and various medical specialties. Although described within a context of military tasks, the committee's conclusions and recommendations have wide-reaching implications for people who find that job-related stress changes their eating habits.

Author: Department of Defense (DoD)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521264904
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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This book highlights the entire family of fielded combat rations. Rations are categorized into one of four platforms: Individual Rations, Assault Rations, Group Rations, and Special Purpose Rations. Each ration is described by its purpose, major characteristics, nutritional data, and preparation requirements. The mission of the DoD Combat Feeding Program is to ensure that America's Warfighters are the best fed in the world. By investing in high risk/high payoff science and technology, and utilizing Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), CFD provides Warfighters with revolutionary combat feeding capabilities. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS * QUICK REFERENCE DATA * INTRODUCTION * HISTORY OF COMBAT FEEDING * CONTINUOUS PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT * NUTRITION * INDIVIDUAL RATIONS: * Meal, Ready-to-Eat, Individual (MRE) * ASSAULT RATIONS: * First Strike Ration (FSR) * Meal, Cold Weather/Food Packet, Long Range Patrol (MCW/LRP) * Modular Operational Ration Enhancement (MORE) * GROUP RATIONS: * Unitized Group Ration (UGR) * UGR-Heat and Serve (H&S) * UGR-A Ration * UGR-B Ration * UGR-Express (UGR-E) * Navy Standard Core Menu (NSCM) * SPECIAL PURPOSE RATIONS: * Meal, Religious, Kosher/Halal * Meal, Religious, Kosher for Passover * Meal, Tailored Operational Training (TOTM) * Go-To-War (GTW) Ration * Food Packet, Survival, General Purpose * Food Packet, Survival, Abandon Ship * Food Packet, Survival, Aircraft, Life Raft * Humanitarian Daily Ration (HDR) * Meal, Alternative Regionally Customized (MARC) * Tube Foods * Ultra High Temperature (UHT) Milk * FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS * CONTACT INFORMATION The mission of the Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Feeding Program is to sustain the Department of Defense's most decisive weapons platform - the individual Warfighter. The contemporary operating environment requires state-of-the-art combat rations to provide for the nutritional needs of the Warfighter in a wide variety of situations, from peacekeeping to high-intensity combat and contingency operations. Under the auspices of the DoD, the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) DoD Combat Feeding Directorate (CFD) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) - Troop Support employ a total life cycle approach in developing, testing, evaluating, procuring, fielding, and supporting all military rations. These rations are a vital contribution to the overall quality of life of the individual combatant.

Author: Ann H. Barrett
Publisher: DEStech Publications, Inc
ISBN: 1605950491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Written by a team from the U.S. Army's Combat Feeding Directorate at the Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, this technical volume represents a comprehensive guide to how the military designs, processes, customizes, packages and distributes highly palatable, long shelf-life food products for field personnel. The book offers new data on numerous technologies used to solve problems such as nutrient densification, lightweighting, novel thermal processing, and long-term quality preservation in delivering appetizing foods and more. Testing techniques are explained for evaluating sensory qualities of foods and their effects on physical and cognitive performance.

Author: Erna Risch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309096413
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 463

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Recognizing the importance of good nutrition for physical and mental status, the Department of Defense asked the Institute of Medicine to guide the design of the nutritional composition of a ration for soldiers on short-term, high-stress missions. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-Term, High-Intensity Combat Operations considers military performance, health concerns, food intake, energy expenditure, physical exercise, and food technology issues. The success of military operations depends to a large extent on the physical and mental status of the individuals involved. Appropriate nutrition during assault missions is a continuous challenge mainly due to diminished appetites of individuals under stress. Many less controllable and unpredictable factors, such as individual preferences and climate, come into play to reduce appetite. In fact, soldiers usually consume about half of the calories needed, leaving them in a state called "negative energy balance." The consequences of being in negative energy balance while under these circumstances range from weight loss to fatigue to mental impairments. An individual's physiological and nutritional status can markedly affect one's ability to maximize performance during missions and may compromise effectiveness. With the number of these missions increasing, the optimization of rations has become a high priority.