Tactical Talk: Fuel To Fight + Win

Tactical Talk: Fuel To Fight + Win

by Alex Cappellino October 29, 2019

Maximum performance requires maximum nutrition. Right now, warfighters downrange tend to eat MREs when they do not have the luxury of the big base KFCs and McDonalds. MREs have a shelf life of at least 3 years and the main operational food ration. Knowledge about food as fuel and nutrition has grown tremendously – yet MREs haven’t kept up and aren’t much better nutritionally than the rations back in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.