Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160872464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its predecessors, since 1989
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160872464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160872464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its Predecessors
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160817861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160817861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its predecessors, since 1989
Author: Peter D. Skirbunt
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its predecessors, 1775-1988
Author: Peter D. Skirbunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its predecessors, 1775-1988
Author: Peter D. Skirbunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries
Author: U. s. Government Printing Office
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160817854
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160817854
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries
Author: Peter D. Skirbunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Combat-Ready Kitchen
Author: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591845971
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Americans eat more processed foods than anyone else in the world. We also spend more on military research. These two seemingly unrelated facts are inextricably linked. If you ever wondered how ready-to-eat foods infiltrated your kitchen, you’ll love this entertaining romp through the secret military history of practically everything you buy at the supermarket. In a nondescript Boston suburb, in a handful of low buildings buffered by trees and a lake, a group of men and women spend their days researching, testing, tasting, and producing the foods that form the bedrock of the American diet. If you stumbled into the facility, you might think the technicians dressed in lab coats and the shiny kitchen equipment belonged to one of the giant food conglomerates responsible for your favorite brand of frozen pizza or microwavable breakfast burritos. So you’d be surprised to learn that you’ve just entered the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, ground zero for the processed food industry. Ever since Napoleon, armies have sought better ways to preserve, store, and transport food for battle. As part of this quest, although most people don’t realize it, the U.S. military spearheaded the invention of energy bars, restructured meat, extended-life bread, instant coffee, and much more. But there’s been an insidious mission creep: because the military enlisted industry—huge corporations such as ADM, ConAgra, General Mills, Hershey, Hormel, Mars, Nabisco, Reynolds, Smithfield, Swift, Tyson, and Unilever—to help develop and manufacture food for soldiers on the front line, over the years combat rations, or the key technologies used in engineering them, have ended up dominating grocery store shelves and refrigerator cases. TV dinners, the cheese powder in snack foods, cling wrap . . . The list is almost endless. Now food writer Anastacia Marx de Salcedo scrutinizes the world of processed food and its long relationship with the military—unveiling the twists, turns, successes, failures, and products that have found their way from the armed forces’ and contractors’ laboratories into our kitchens. In developing these rations, the army was looking for some of the very same qualities as we do in our hectic, fast-paced twenty-first-century lives: portability, ease of preparation, extended shelf life at room temperature, affordability, and appeal to even the least adventurous eaters. In other words, the military has us chowing down like special ops. What is the effect of such a diet, eaten—as it is by soldiers and most consumers—day in and day out, year after year? We don’t really know. We’re the guinea pigs in a giant public health experiment, one in which science and technology, at the beck and call of the military, have taken over our kitchens.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591845971
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Americans eat more processed foods than anyone else in the world. We also spend more on military research. These two seemingly unrelated facts are inextricably linked. If you ever wondered how ready-to-eat foods infiltrated your kitchen, you’ll love this entertaining romp through the secret military history of practically everything you buy at the supermarket. In a nondescript Boston suburb, in a handful of low buildings buffered by trees and a lake, a group of men and women spend their days researching, testing, tasting, and producing the foods that form the bedrock of the American diet. If you stumbled into the facility, you might think the technicians dressed in lab coats and the shiny kitchen equipment belonged to one of the giant food conglomerates responsible for your favorite brand of frozen pizza or microwavable breakfast burritos. So you’d be surprised to learn that you’ve just entered the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, ground zero for the processed food industry. Ever since Napoleon, armies have sought better ways to preserve, store, and transport food for battle. As part of this quest, although most people don’t realize it, the U.S. military spearheaded the invention of energy bars, restructured meat, extended-life bread, instant coffee, and much more. But there’s been an insidious mission creep: because the military enlisted industry—huge corporations such as ADM, ConAgra, General Mills, Hershey, Hormel, Mars, Nabisco, Reynolds, Smithfield, Swift, Tyson, and Unilever—to help develop and manufacture food for soldiers on the front line, over the years combat rations, or the key technologies used in engineering them, have ended up dominating grocery store shelves and refrigerator cases. TV dinners, the cheese powder in snack foods, cling wrap . . . The list is almost endless. Now food writer Anastacia Marx de Salcedo scrutinizes the world of processed food and its long relationship with the military—unveiling the twists, turns, successes, failures, and products that have found their way from the armed forces’ and contractors’ laboratories into our kitchens. In developing these rations, the army was looking for some of the very same qualities as we do in our hectic, fast-paced twenty-first-century lives: portability, ease of preparation, extended shelf life at room temperature, affordability, and appeal to even the least adventurous eaters. In other words, the military has us chowing down like special ops. What is the effect of such a diet, eaten—as it is by soldiers and most consumers—day in and day out, year after year? We don’t really know. We’re the guinea pigs in a giant public health experiment, one in which science and technology, at the beck and call of the military, have taken over our kitchens.
Logistics Matters and the U.S. Army in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Author: Lee Kruger
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319388363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and sector of Berlin. Both missions required logistics support, a critical aspect often understated in existing scholarship. The security mission, covered by the combat troops, declined between 1945 and 1948, but grew again with the Berlin Blockade/Airlift in 1948, and then again with the Korean crisis in 1950. The logistics mission grew exponentially to support this security mission, as the U.S. Army was the only U.S. Government agency possessing the ability and resources to initially support the occupation mission in Germany. The build-up of ‘Little Americas’ during the occupation years stood forward-deployed U.S. military forces in Europe in good stead over the ensuing decades.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319388363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and sector of Berlin. Both missions required logistics support, a critical aspect often understated in existing scholarship. The security mission, covered by the combat troops, declined between 1945 and 1948, but grew again with the Berlin Blockade/Airlift in 1948, and then again with the Korean crisis in 1950. The logistics mission grew exponentially to support this security mission, as the U.S. Army was the only U.S. Government agency possessing the ability and resources to initially support the occupation mission in Germany. The build-up of ‘Little Americas’ during the occupation years stood forward-deployed U.S. military forces in Europe in good stead over the ensuing decades.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Four Confederated Bands of Pawnees
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Four Confederated Bands of Pawnees
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description