First-Strike Ration
Specialists with the DOD Combat Feeding Program and with the Military Nutrition Division at the U.S. Army Institute of Environmental Medicine are developing a special light-weight, nutritional field ration known as a first-strike ration that warfighters can take into the field instead of MREs, such as the one shown here. (U.S. Navy photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt)