[AGL] Fwd: CDC says: Time for us old folks to stockpile food and prepare for social isolation

[Michael Eisenstadt]

On 3/17/2020 9:30 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
> They are better than K or C Rations but not much. 

I ate C Rations when I was in the US Army in 1957. They were left over 
from WW II. Spam in a can. Fruit in syrup in a can. abreviated pack of 
Lucky Strike cigarettes. There must have been other items but don't 
remember.

On a related subject, I didn't think I was in the Army long enough to 
qualify as a veteran. There is some doubt in my mind about this because 
a friend of mine who served the same year and in the same Reserves>Army 
6 month program has been enjoying VA privileges all his life. So I have 
applied for a DD411 report from archives.gov as to whether I am or am 
not a military veteran. In the past I had learnt that a soldier was 
required to serve 180 days to be a veteran after discharge which is why 
6 monthers were discharged a week or so before serving 180 days. This 
may have changed. Who knows how the gov of today treats superannuated 
survivors of that 6 month program? The 6 month join the Reserves program 
+ 6 months in the Army program allowed you to avoid the 2 year draft 
which still obtained although 1957 was quintessentially peacetimre. Very 
popular program for that reason. ER12533294 was my serial number. Funny 
how that number sticks in the mind.