Just for fun......The Ultimate Soldier

[Parus Ater]

I set fire to my foxhole last year with one of them hexamine stoves. Or should I say "captured Esbit" stove. Ahem.

[Invisible officer]

Better use the No. 2 Mk 2

I like it, never burned anything with it.

So I'm no candidate for the ultimate ...

[Centurion Dan]

Better use the No. 2 Mk 2

I like it, never burned anything with it.

So I'm no candidate for the ultimate ...

Remember those hexy cookers well - we used to issue them and 24hr rat-packs to the guys going off on jaunts across the Brecon Beacons. Those hexy blocks stank though!

[Big Al]

I remember watching The Apprentice a couple of years ago and some ex army type tried to cook sausages and bacon on something like that as a business venture. Epic fail!! He managed to light the thing and it was like cooking over a candle!

[Invisible officer]

Remember those hexy cookers well - we used to issue them and 24hr rat-packs to the guys going off on jaunts across the Brecon Beacons. Those hexy blocks stank though!

Try the self heating US Army meals. No wonder that they claim to be hard soldiers. The smell is....... Ultimate stink.

[Parus Ater]

Hexy cookers are still issue, the come in the 24hour ration packs. If you feel brave you can gently melt them into Esbit moulds. Just make sure the temps don't get too high

[grant]

Those might be the wimpiest stoves I've ever seen. You guys need something manly.

[janner]

In the jungle we binned the stove and used three, six inch nails - lighter and more robust.

[Big Al]

THis is starting to go down the Monty Python Sketch route!

'Ee! When ah worra lad, we used t' live in house made o' cardboord!
You wo' lucky! We used to live in a shoe box in middle o' rooad!

And so on!

[carvel2]

Made these for camping with the lad..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoR5VI5QS1I