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French World War One combination coffee grinder and mess kit (3/4/08)
 During the First World War, the French soldier was required to carry great deal of equipment inside or attached to his field pack. The type of gear carried by an average soldier today has changed from the equipment carried 90+ years ago. The weight on the other hand has remained about the same at roughly 75 pounds.
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Goodbye to the Mess Kit (1/16/08)
 If it is true that an Army marches on its stomach, then the mess kit was the way the Army marches.
The examples of mess kits I have belong to World War I and the Vietnam Era. The first is heavy gauge steel and has some heft to it. Its design survived through the Second World War. The ‘chow’ was added unceremoniously into uncompartmented sections where everything eventually ran together.
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