An Army official said it was "a significant improvement in combat feeding" and soldiers will be able to carry seven days of meals for the first time.
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The evolution of infantry foods

Feeding soldiers has been part of the U.S. military’s strategy for hundreds of years. After all, efficient soldiers need ...
The MRE, or “Meal, Ready-to-Eat,” has evolved to fit soldiers’ changing tastes. For the last three and a half decades, the individual combat ration known as the “Meal, Ready-to-Eat,” or MRE, has been ...
At the Museum of Veterans and Military History, 53 N. Mt. Olive, in Vilonia there are a variety of Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs). Many, military or not, have seen an MRE nicknamed by soldiers as Meals ...