Many years have passed since the last U.S. service member had to down the contents of a K-ration can. The meal-ready-to-eat, or MRE, has revolutionized field rations over the past couple of decades. But the people behind the MRE never rest. They’re always taking in soldier input, creating new menus and trying to please the battlefield palate.
The most recent breakthrough — pizza. Jim LeCollier is the individual rations branch chief at the Defense Logistics Agency, and Jeanette Kennedy, is senior food technologist on the Combat Rations Team, part of the Combat Feeding Directorate of the Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center. They talk about the latest developments in the MRE.