Vintage USA Meal Combat Individual MCI Ballistic The official NATO code for

The official NATO code for these rations is 8905-15-147-6202

This is an MREmountain

Noodles beef flavor

white 4x7g

The flint is easily replaceable by removing the brass screw inside the tinder capsule

Vintage USA Meal Combat Individual MCI Ballistic The official NATO code forThe Meal, Combat, Individual or MCI was the replacement for the K ration used extensively in WW2 and shortly after. FOR DISPLAY and EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY! The MCI carried some traditions forward but also provided a simpler, compact, nutritionally balanced meal that included advances in canned food technology in the Korean war and Vietnam eras. The last MCIs were issued in 1977 1978, though first hand accounts state that some old stock was used