And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I can agree with that, as I served aboard ship during a portion of my military career. Even better to my mind was a variation ashore, using C-rations or MREs, which was what we called a Mocha Two-step, referring not to the steps in creating it but to the dance you would be tempted to perform upon drinking it.
The recipe was to take a packet of freeze-dried coffee along with the bag of 'Cocoa, Beverage, Powder' and mix it in one of the most valuable implements issued to a grunt - the canteen cup - with hot water (had to be hot, otherwise nothing would break down and mix). The resulting beverage, considering the fact that field rations are always heavily fortified, contained a far-more-than-adequate extra-double dose of caffeine.
Used to do that same cafe drill every time in the field with 1?36 Inf in 3rd Armor Div. Didn't consider as having actually been in the field until that cup.
Navy coffee was the best because it had often been brewing for a week and poured like syrup. It was crack in a cup.
ReplyDeleteI can agree with that, as I served aboard ship during a portion of my military career. Even better to my mind was a variation ashore, using C-rations or MREs, which was what we called a Mocha Two-step, referring not to the steps in creating it but to the dance you would be tempted to perform upon drinking it.
DeleteThe recipe was to take a packet of freeze-dried coffee along with the bag of 'Cocoa, Beverage, Powder' and mix it in one of the most valuable implements issued to a grunt - the canteen cup - with hot water (had to be hot, otherwise nothing would break down and mix). The resulting beverage, considering the fact that field rations are always heavily fortified, contained a far-more-than-adequate extra-double dose of caffeine.
Nicholas, the never ending creativity of humanity is astounding. Keurig should make that for the hard caffeine core users of their machine.
DeleteUsed to do that same cafe drill every time in the field with 1?36 Inf in 3rd Armor Div. Didn't consider as having actually been in the field until that cup.
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