Rooskie National Guard IRP

(Individual Ration Package, or "Doing the Nasty Ivan-Style")

Greetings Me Droogs N Droogettes!
OK with some delay, we got the Russian National Guard Ration. This one is much smaller than the ‘regular Russian’ field ration, in that this’s literally the ‘basics’. The package it comes in is a basic camo, with a list of what’s in it:

As you can see, the pack date is February of 2020, with best by date of February 2022. Not for any real issue, as it now being August of 2023, and it was all still good. The ration itself came packed with the following:

When everything was dismounted, this’s the layout:

Now what -I- found interesting was the ‘spartan’ level of the supplies so to speak. 1 Can of Chicken, 1 Can of Veggies (Cucumbers and Radishes) 1 Serving of ‘Kasha’ which is buckwheat and pork pieces, and 1 Serving of Beef and Pasta. The obligatory 4 packs of inedible wheat crackers, 1 ‘Gatorade’ style drink mix, 2 packs of sugar and two teabags… that was it. The lack of coffee surprised me, as well as no spoon, no heater flameless or otherwise, no napkin or even any hard candy/chocolate either.

Usually a 24 hour Ration has the ‘small comfort stuff’ but hey, who knows? Might be that the Russian National Guard is like the US version, the less-regarded junior service? Tough to say as ALL US Field chow is the same across the board. Now as far as eating?

The Kasha was OK

VERY light on the actual amount of meat in it…like not much at all. LOTS of fat in it too… I could have lubed a light machine gun after I heated it up. I added a bit of pepper to it as hey, I like me some flavor. Otherwise, not much flavor to it TBH.
Same thing with the beef and pasta:

Now this one actually had quite a bit of beef in it, so no complaints there. The pasta was a bit on the chewy side, but overall, I’d eat it in the field no issue.

The can o’chikin was just that:

The doggo and cats were hovering when I opened that. After I drained off the water, there was a pretty good amount of what appeared to be goodly chunks of cooked chikin breast. I had some leftover rice from dinner or two before, so I mixed it into that, as otherwise a can o’basic chikin on it’s own? Meh. I think it was supposed to go and be mixed with the can of veggies:

But, on opening that can?
No pictures as I literally had to run it outside if only to keep the stench from polluting the whole house. I chucked it into the rain-wash grate as I didn’t even want it befouling my outside garbage can. Not sue if it was supposed to smell like that or if it was ‘off’ but I sure as hell wasn’t taking any chances.

So yeah, the chikin on being drained had this:

Big ole chunks and tasted like normal ‘Murican Chikin instead of Rooskie Chikin. I mixed it in the rice, and slapped some seasoning salt and Mrs. Dash (garlic) to it to make a pretty decent meal:

It was very tasty after the setup. If I were in the field, instead of rice, it would have been a ramen noodle. All in all, a decent enough meal. Thing of it is, when I bought these back in 2020, they were like $20 a throw, which is more expensive than an individual MRE but hey, now?

Can’t find them for love nor money. The few that ARE on eBay and other sites have them running as much as $85 and that does NOT include shipping. That and the war coming along means that all these now being made have (or should have) gone to the troops… it also explains the reports of the chow that the grunts had at the beginning of the SMO being ridiculously out of date.

The guy -I- bought from obviously had a source for the new stuff… His seller account was deactivated sometime ago… got me a hunch he was probably a supply sergeant making rubles on the side selling guys like me the good chow, while leaving the old nasty shit for the troops. Sapper and I split on a case of 10 meals, 5 each, and got free shipping, so for emergencies and poasts like this, I got some more in the deep storage to be used if needed… I mean why not right?
So, what with the Hurricane coming our way, this might be a good thing to have on hand.

Hope you Enjoyed
More Later
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