Logistics

Legged Squad Support System

Unmanned Logistics Support 21st century robotic beasts of burden

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Logistics convoys have been high priority – and highly vulnerable – targets for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), mines, and RPG (rocket-propelled …

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This photograph shows the amounts of milk, sugar, bacon, cheese, butter, and chocolate received by two people per week in Britain in 1943. © IWM (D 14667), Ministry of Information Photo Division photographer

No More Sweets! Food rationing in Great Britain

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All the nations involved in World War II practiced rationing. It was particularly severe in Great Britain because unlike the United States, which was self-sufficient in many things, Great …

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DLA Pacific Operation Tomodachi

DLA Regional Commands

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The U.S. Defense Department has divided the world into six geographic unified combatant commands – Europe (EUCOM), Africa (AFRICOM), Central (CENTCOM – basically, the Middle East), North America (NORCOM), South …

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Meal, Ready-to-Eat Field Testing

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Six New processing technologies and the coming of ketchup and mustard

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In the final installment of our series on the Meal, Ready to Eat and its 30 years of history we look to the future to see what’s in store in …

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German Soldiers and U.S. Marines Exchange Rations

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Five Wondering what the other guys eat

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In part five of our series on the 30th anniversary of the MRE we come to one of the most intriguing aspects of this very American ration – how it …

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Meals, Ready-to-Eat

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Four MRE entrees – the favorites and the failures

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It turns out that the three previous installments in our series on the 30th anniversary of the “Meal, Ready To Eat” were not enough to get our arms around this …

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First Strike Ration

Ready To Eat! Thirty Years of the MRE – Part Three Field-stripping, First Strike Rations, and the Humanitarian Daily Ration

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Thirty years of history, including employment in at least five conflicts, are behind the “Meal, Ready-to-Eat.” So far we’ve outlined a few of the many challenges that the Combat Feeding …

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Soldier Meal, Ready-to-Eat MRE Evaluation

Ready To Eat! 30 Years of the MRE Part 2 Part 2

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Keeping the MRE current and in-step with warfighter needs and preferences is a constant challenge for the relatively small Combat Feeding Directorate. Based in Natick, Mass., at the U.S. Army’s …

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Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs)

Ready To Eat! 30 Years of the MRE Part 1: A new kind of ration

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For the last three decades, and for at least as many generations of warfighters, the individual combat ration known as the “Meal, Ready-to-Eat” or MRE has been a staple of …

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Defense Logistics Information Service

DLA Business Services

In the half century since the creation of the Defense Logistics Agency (called the Defense Supply Agency from 1961-1977), a great many pre-existing Department of Defense (DoD) services and agencies …

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