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"Hopefully we can finish a bit early on Christmas Day to cook something nice with our field rations."

It was military field rations, known as MREs, or meals ready to eat.

The planes will bring tens of thousands of pounds of tents, field rations and kitchen sets into the country.

They've been fed more lies than field rations over the last month and a half, according to many reports.

The sources described little or no safe drinking water, field rations for one man being shared among several, and units having to scavenge food.