How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Witchking

My reading of this is that (as of 2015) GAO read Military MRE stockpiles to be large enough that (with 3 year shelf life) they might end up throwing away MREs not consumed within the shelf life window.

It's pretty simple: somebody needs to eat 1.667 million cases of MREs per year. The government can give them away, of course, but for PR reasons they need to avoid people becoming dependent on free MREs which will stop happening when there's a war.