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08-03-2005, 11:46 AM
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Smokes?
A young friend is taking a couple of summer courses at U. of Mass. He?s writing a paper on the history of tobacco and the US military. He called and asked if it was true that we got smokes in our C-rats. Course I told him it was. He ask if I could tell him all the brands, I can?t.
There was Marlboro, Winston, Pall Mall and Salem. However I?m pretty sure there were other brands too. Does anyone recall what they were. He?d need the info by Friday. Did you guys know that the cigarette companies sent a million cigarettes a day to Europe for free during W.W.I? Stay healthy, Andy 
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08-03-2005, 11:55 AM
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Winston,Marlboro,Salem, Pall Mall, Camel, Chesterfield, Kent, Lucky Strike, Kool
I'll put up the link to the site in a minute..We dined on c-rats in Bolivia....during a brief overthrow trading one lyin' politician for another...  C-rats
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08-03-2005, 12:54 PM
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When I went thru Basic Training at Lackland AFB in July 1980 we were still issued C-rats while running the obstacle course and our Instructors told everyone to return their p38 and any cigarettes found in the rations my p38 went into my Shirt pocket pen holder as soon as I was done with it
 I kept it for all these years on my key chain. The only cigarette pack I saw out of a C-rat was the Pall Malls and Chesterfields that day. That was an interesting link on C-Rats! the one I ate was the Ham Slices (my dad told me before I went an enlisted you couldn't go wrong with Canned Ham ) He was correct !
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08-03-2005, 02:32 PM
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UMMmmmm...Ham and Mothers.My favorite!
Only ever looked for Luckies-traded everything else.Sometimes had to resort to tearing the filters off Winstons and Marlboros. Non filters were easier to field-strip.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. ~Thomas Jefferson Peace,Griz
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08-03-2005, 05:47 PM
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I was the only one in the platoon to smoke Luckies. Got em in C's , every one gave me theirs and I got them twice in Sundry Packs. Never lacked for smokes . Smoked and ate in holes sometimes . Stateside it was $2 a carton in 1969
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08-03-2005, 08:05 PM
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I didn't smoke!
Traded my cigarettes for Chocolate. Good 'ole' stale chocolate bars. Even stale chocolate is good when you are a choco holic.
Keith
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08-04-2005, 05:41 AM
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Any Iraq war guys know if
They get the hersheys tropical chocolate bars any more. John Wayne Bars. Rumor had it that Andys unit used to use them for additional armor on the APCs. I find this no smoking stuff carrying it just to far. Maybe we should send smokes to the insurgents. Our boys could then kill them for the cigarettes.
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08-04-2005, 07:01 AM
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Heard on the radio this morning that some enterprising dude has come out with a chocolate T-Shirt. It looks and smells like chocolate, but you can't eat it, unless you want furr-balls.
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08-04-2005, 11:48 AM
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I got some Wings cigarettes in some Cs. WWII surplus.
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