How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

But MREs are fairly concentrated, so anyone living on just one MRE a day might be grumpy due to perceptions of hunger, even if they're getting sufficient calories.

One MRE is 1200 calories. That's a minimal by UN standards and the bottom even for dieters. I can't maintain body weight on 1200 calories a day even when sedentary (yes, I've tried, I personally needed 2200 calories when I was in my mid-50s)).

So, tt's probably more than a "perception" of hunger.

For persons living the equivalent of a "field" miltary lifestyle even 3600 calories a day may not be enough. WWII studies showed that 4200 calories with more for "Jungle" or "Mountain" troops was actually necessary t the US Quartermaster Corps wasn't about to do that.

I have at times pondered an alternate history where the upper ranks of the QC was at a conference in Pearl Harbor in December of '41 and what that would do to the length of the war. :)