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  • Instead of doggy C-rations, Willy got a hamburger that day.

    Anthony Jerone 2010

  • We can taste the food, C-rations and the much worse K-rations, neither one very good ... never enough.

    May 2008 2008

  • You can take the little tin of peanut butter from a package of C-rations, use a cut-off piece of shoelace as a wick, and use it as a makeshift lamp or to heat the rest of the rations.

    Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions 2010

  • Cowboy Larimer and Coochy, the medic, wolfed down C-rations under a tree just a few yards away.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • We can taste the food, C-rations and the much worse K-rations, neither one very good ... never enough.

    Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs 2008

  • Or, the moral of this story is - if you want to survive Armageddon, yes, you can live on C-rations for a long time, and also - good things come in olive drab packages.

    Current Affairs 2009

  • Or, the moral of this story is - if you want to survive Armageddon, yes, you can live on C-rations for a long time, and also - good things come in olive drab packages.

    Nature 2009

  • Henry Moak consumed a can of C-rations from 1969, which he had saved as a souvenir all this time.

    Nature 2009

  • (The "advanced" part apparently referred to learning how to live in tents, eat Korean-war era C-rations out of rusting green cans and learning who to blow up all kinds of obsolete, taxpayer funded, military vehicles.)

    What's the Damn Hold Up? 2009

  • Henry Moak consumed a can of C-rations from 1969, which he had saved as a souvenir all this time.

    Current Affairs 2009

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