He frowned into the pack and pulled out a C-ration box.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

I said hello and sat down on a stack of C-ration cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

He reached back into the C-ration case and found another can of cookies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

C-ration cans clunk against the sticks of C-4 explosive in my trouser kangaroo pockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing in America] Reference

While the rotor was spinning down, Reacher pulled the C-ration case from the aft compartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

C-ration meals each had one small roll of toilet paper in a brown wrapper; he used all of one arid half of another.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

Water bags, called "lister bags," were set up on tripods; the mess tent was put together; and while the men stacked C-ration boxes around the sides, the cooks started the evening meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

The largest C-ration can — the type that held Frankfurters and Beans or Spaghetti with Meat Sauce — was just the right size to hold a Mark 2 hand grenade, restraining the safety lever from popping away.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

I'm sure that's an exaggeration, although I am equally sure that the pound cake (around which you can see the frilly paper "cupcake" wrapper) tastes better than Mike's C-ration scrambled eggs (these were also Vietnam-era, still in use when poor Mike had to eat them, 10 years later).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature] Reference

The Army colonel popped open a military C-ration can of pound cake from 1969 at his retirement ceremony, and dug in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News] Reference

The bait was Army C-ration cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have you ever caught a fish on something completely out of the ordinary? like say tin foil on a bent wire. hand lined for bass?] Reference

100 rations = 1 C-ration.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Chemistry] Reference

24. 100 rations = 1 C-ration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Yes they were supposed to relieve stress and satisfy jumpy nerves ... athletes and doctors appeared in ads for Camels ... the Army put little packs of cigs in C-ration boxes ... airline stewardesses handed them out too ... ahhh, those were the days!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference