Vintage USA Meal Combat Individual MCI bread Beef slices

Beef slices

Each pack contains two bars as shown in photos

2 x White Boiled Rice

and heater module

2 x pack hard crackers (90 g)

Vintage USA Meal Combat Individual MCI bread Beef slicesThe Meal, Combat, Individual or MCI was the replacement for the K ration used extensively in WW2 and shortly after. FOR DISPLAY and EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY! The MCI carried some traditions forward but also provided a simpler, compact, nutritionally balanced meal that included advances in canned food technology in the Korean war and Vietnam eras. The last MCIs were issued in 1977 1978, though first hand accounts state that some old stock was used