Link HERE
Ok at this point, I’m really beginning to suspect that someone, somewhere knows something. ALL these MREs floating around ‘randomly’ and the price cut going down to $31.48 a Case!?!
Tell me this isn’t a ‘back-door Civil Defense’ thing.
PLEASE.
Currently the official reason is:
“MREs are available at much lower prices than usual for several reasons. These lower prices have been holding steady for around two months now. The most common is that many surplus stores, vendors, and resellers have acquired large stockpiles from numerous GSA auctions, where thousands of full pallets of MREs have been sold. These MREs have reached or are close to reaching their 2024/2025 inspection dates and are being rotated out to make room for newer stock, even though the majority are still completely safe to eat. There are also stockpiles of MREs that were not fully distributed by FEMA/DOD during natural disasters, emergency responses, conflicts, etc.”
Despite the claims that these are ‘surplus to needs’ I have to ask. I mean HOW do we have such a surplus now???
Why not years ago like in say 2022 or 2023 or 2024 when we had a noticeable decrease in demand due to ALL the wars being over?
My problem with this is that almost ALL of these things were made in 2022. That’s almost a year after the Afghanistan pullout in August of 2021. The pullout, while being really fucked up, was a known quantity in respect to that the DotMil (meaning the GSA) knew that they’d be ramping down the need for MREs for the troops as the war was over either way. In fact the contract to supply MREs is on a modifiable year-to-year contract so as to allow the purchase order to either ‘contract’ or ‘expand’ depending on the needs of the service.
And the line of ‘stockpiles of MREs that were not fully distributed by FEMA/DOD during natural disasters, emergency responses’ rings false as we had a TON of hurricanes and natural disasters, to include fires and whatnot that these would or should have seen distribution in. I mean here in Florida as I documented, they handed out those foul-as-fuck less that “Humanitarian Rations” that are probably part of the reason the Ether-nope-ians and Paleo-stainians hate our asses so much. REAL edible MREs being handed out to US citizens who paid for them? Notsomucho.
Add on that the line about “…close to reaching their 2024/2025 inspection dates and are being rotated out to make room for newer stock…” strikes me as crap as well. Even when I was on Active Duty back in the day, the MREs when we went to the field? The ones we got were never ‘new’ but close to if even past the 5 year rotational date. Not once even in Iraq did I see ‘new’ MREs. “Oldest first was” and is the standard, so the question remains:
Just what in the Hell is going on?
I had a discussion with Sapper many weeks ago when these ‘fire sale’ prices started showing up. I questioned (jokingly at the time) if this might be a ‘backdoor Civil Defense Initiative’ of a sort. My question was pretty off-the-cuff… but now?
I mean back post World War Two, the US used to be a DotGov OF the People, BY the People and most importantly FOR the People.
Somewhere in all the bullshit this’s been forgotten in the name of Greed, Graft and Corruption. I mean see the interview with Tucker Carlson with that female former DotGov Secretary of -Something Important- blew the whistle and who talks about MASSIVE deep underground shelters and hideouts for the Elites and DotGov Members and their families for potential upcoming badness.
I mean the 48 Trillion $$$ had to go somewhere Aye?
Whether it’s true or not, the fact of the matter is that the general population of the United States, if in the event of a MASSIVE catastrophe, be it Polar Excursion, Solar Flare(s) and/or Nuclear Exchange, the GenPop is out on its ass and on its own. At least in the 1950’s they attempted to have ‘stuff’ set aside for such events.
It was called Civil Defense and is a quaint leftover from the Cold War. I actually have a small collection in the ‘BCE Museum of Mayhem’ of some items from back then. One is a can of water that was stockpiled for long-term storage in a bunker -somewhere-
It’s sitting on a Civil Defense Geiger Counter as you can see.
Which also was provided in public shelters if the Rooskies decided to bomb our ears off….
A an aside: The ‘Radioactive Material’ card leaning against the handle of the counter is a test card to see if the Geiger Counter works (it does). A Funny/Gross thing about that water… it’s still sealed and full. Like new. It was, according to the markings, canned in December of 1952.
The thing is… well… that when you shake it? It feels like a solid thing of like ‘Jello’ or something. Gross AF TBH. Like a ‘squishy-clunk’ of a solid hitting the sides of the can rather than if you were shaking what’s labeled a can of Water. “ThunkThunkThunk” as opposed to “ShookaShookaShooka!” like water would make… I mean y’all know I’m crazy and have eaten 20 year old MREs for this here place, but I’ll be damned if’n I open that particular biohazard in the making. Got me a hunch it’s a chunk of solid slime or something by now… when I show it off to visitors here at the Casa, and when they shake it, they get the same queasy look on their face that I get when doing the same…
But anyways.
There’s plenty of Civil Defense ‘souvenirs’ out there on eBay that one can find. It’s where I found the can o’water. There used to be BIG bunkers FILLED to the brim with survival supplies, all funded by Tax Dollars to assist the population of the US to weather potential Nuclear Wars and whatever.
However: Somewhere around the late 60s, the Powers That Be decided that the average American was expendable, and they sold off/closed down and shuttered all the Civil Defense networks and bunkers. The majority of the posters I have hanging on the wall of the Casa are (for the most part) collected by me from my Junior High School Cellar, which in the 50s was the Town’s primary bunker for Civil Defense.
And yeah, a lot of those are framed originals.
My ‘Social Studies’ Teacher Mr. Cooper (rest in peace Mr. C.) was a Korean War vet and we (the ‘war/gun geeks’) were his favorite kids. He had a key to the shelter, and when word came down they were going to shitcan everything and let us loot it ahead of the clean-out. I just wish I had know just how rare and valuable some of that ‘crap’ was going to become.
Nowadays?
There’s nothing in place for “CFivil Defense” except a “put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye” plan. Literally despite the outrageous amount of money us tax-slaves/serfs dump into the FedGov coffers, there ain’t FUCK-ALL for US, the Taxpayer/Common Joe in case of a MASSIVE worldwide disaster. How this doesn’t piss more people off makes me wonder just what (besides fluoride) they put in the fucking water these days… even the fucking Russians still maintain their civilian bunkers in case of ‘Shitfullness’ so to speak. In fact as of late they’ve been on a crash-rebuilding/refurbing project ALL over Russia…
Makes you wonder Aye?
Hence my questioning if this is sort of an “IQ Test” slash-backdoor Civil Defense Measure… meaning those of us smart enough to potentially recognize that shit might get a wee bit dicey in the next few months, that ‘they’ve’ provided us with some means of possibly surviving… or at least dodging starvation? Going along the lines of the Luciferian Gambit: “We Warned Them/Gave Them Fair Warning and if They Failed to Act on It, Our Hands Are Clean” sort of thing… “They” seem to like to play that card a lot IMO.
Granted this’s a real roundabout way of doing so, but in my ENTIRE Life I’ve never ever seen the prices go this fucking low.
I mean $31 a case!?!
Even in Army Surplus stores, an old-old MRE sells for $10 PER MRE. Make it make sense will you? And I do not want to hear the usual stories about supply and demand. I’ve worked logistics for the DotGov remember? Even what few frens I have who’re even remotely still in the ‘game’ are wondering what the fuck is going on? Nobody has ever seen anything remotely like this ever.
So your thoughts?
I know that Gretchen is pissed because I’m picking up ANOTHER 2 cases this payday… but my line of thought is tis better to have, than to have not.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Am I nuts or………..
More Later
Big Country
Reality is nutz, not you.
I think you have the “(((They))) have to warn us, somehow” thing, down pat.
Personally I think that we were supposed to go gung ho and jump into the Krainian mess during the last administration. When the common folk refused to demand it in spite of massive amounts of propaganda the .gov cancelled the contracts for the MREs and the distributers are dumping all of it to get it off their shelves.
Too bad you don’t get a taste any more on the link. But I will use it to pick up a few more just in case they decide to pay you.
Oh thats a good link… the demonetization is from Goolag Ads here, not my Zon Associates account. Appreciate you Fren!
a ghost (not a greyman) I know, was an independent trucker back a few years ago. He told me a story about someplace west of here (maybe in Indy, maybe in Alabama,, can’t recall now) where the trucks were guided down 1 1/2 miles down a tunnel, into a complex that he was able to do a complete turn around in, without knifing his rig, and it had 15 bays for unloading. He was not allowed to use GPS to get there, had one stop he had to make to meet his guide and then lights out the whole way in, following this guide for an hour before they ever went into the tunnel.
Guess what he hauled? MRE’s. Those aren’t overstock IMO, they are being replaced by the next latest and greatest MRE for the Evileet overlords for when SHTF,,, Likely in that complex located in Central US somewhere.
Grab what you can at the firesale prices, not like the shit is going to go bad and if it does, you know it when the bag starts to inflate on its own.
Thanks again, BCE! Just ordered four more. No, you’re not bonkers. Just doing what MEN do to provide for and protect their families. The ones I received before are far better than the ones I bought 10~15 years ago. Pretty damn close to “Real Food”, and no hint of an aftertaste!
Seriously, I was in grade-school during the 50’s, high-school during the sixties, and college in the 70’s. Went through all the bullshit in three decades. I remember the huge CD Shelters in all the big buildings “downtown”. When they were being decommissioned I was allowed to help empty them out. Since I was in the local Ham Radio club, and we were part of CD Communications, we were the ones who removed and disposed of anything “electronic” in all the shelters in our AO. Some stuff went to auction, some stuff was scrapped, some went to hospitals, some went back to Uncle Sam, and some (yeah…) wound up as “souvenirs”. I’ve still got my Geiger counter(s), and boxes of spares for them.
BCE,
Glad you’re getting a little from the Zon link. Ordered two more cases. Might come in handy because we still have a ways to go before this fourth turning is over.
Buy more ammo.
2 is 1, 1 is none, 10+ is better!!!!
Prior to skipping out, Ruling Elites tend to always loot the treasury.
This bunch of narcissists?
I think they recognize the frailty of fUSA fiat currency and the uselessness of precious metals, so they are looting F.E.M.A. warehouses for the grub.
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Calories carry value.
I could be totally wrong about this, but years ago I was in the disaster business for the Army (homeland defense and support to civil authority). One of my areas of interest was the New Madrid Seismic Zone…it is a major earthquake threat that makes California’s “The big one” look puny. I attended a NMSZ briefing by a FEMA guy and he was scared. Anyway, some years ago I saw an RFP from FEMA for 100 million MRE meals. I never bothered to follow up to see if the contract was ever filled. When you understand the potential impact of the NMSZ, 100 million meals is either about right…or not enough. So, maybe there is some huge NMSZ MRE stockpile and they are rotating out the close to expired stocks. It’s just a guess, though.
yeah. I had 3 foot lockers full of “stuff” leftover from my army days until my damn kid found them.
yeah. they where up in the attic and unlocked so. I guess it my fault ?
anyway, never was a “fan” of MRE’s myself. most of what I tasted back in the late 1980’s made a
person want to puke. C-rats on the other hand where great. even the older LURP rations where okay
for the most part. so, you saying that these “new” MREs are better than the ones back in 1980’s ?
don’t plan on going anywhere anymore. I already in the hills. but I do stock canned goods deep.
and have 2 good propane stoves and well as 2 wood stoves here in the house. and 2 generators and fuel.
the debit bubble scared me back in the late 1990’s with how big/deep it was , and NOW?
looking around and one can see that this bubble has to burst sometime.
always wanted to make a wood gas generator to run a generator on, looks like I should get one done here soon as things/times are getting really stupid.
as my Dad told me many years ago, it was wide spread use of electrical power that got us from horse and buggy to the moon. electrical power is the key thing. without it, we back in the 1800’s overnight.
anyway, what do I know? BTW, I gave a lot of the things/stuff to my brother and he has a little space
like yours with weird/old army stuff in it. box of 22 shorts made with copper ? yup.
2.75 rocket training round, yup. maps of weird areas, yeah, have a few of them as well.
even some old EAST German flags and stuff stolen from a May day gig/ show/whatever from back in the 1970’s anyway, it seem like a good idea at the time,,,,