US Meal Ready to Eat - VINTAGE BROWN BAG - 1988 - 1992

The US Meal Ready to Eat replaced the US Meal Combat Individual (MCI) which was issued from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. During the 1990/1 campaign to liberate Kuwait, these brown bag MREs were the standard ration issued to all US and some Coalition forces
 
This example is a Chicken Ala King - Menu 6, produced between 1988 and 1992 (VIII and XII).