How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

I think that by WWI the hard tack came in cans so that would be the first time the hard tack (probably) wasn't infested wiith weevils. However as the original "loose" hard tack ordered for use in the US Civil War was issued more than 30 years alter in the Spanish American war there just isn't any certainty about what happened to all the 'old" hard tack.

Then there's the "D-Ration" bars......

Well technically the US Army (or more accurately manufacturers under contract) first started incorporating canned items as part of rations as early as the Civil War. Of course with the state of technology, the inconsistency of manufacture, and the rampant grey scale corruption (a boot that isn't much better than cardboard and falls apart on the first march or rain, is technically a 'boot') to maximize profit over lives; you might be right that the canned hard tack in WWI might have been the first competently done.