Reply #21: Chronic constipation is caused by eating Army field rations

[jmowreader]

Every GI knows the Absolute Truth: army field rations will stop you up better than anything short of shoving a cork up your ass.

There's a reason beer is so popular among field soldiers: you get back to garrison, put away two or three beers, and you'll shit normally in a day or two.

We once left a guy to guard a case of C-rations and two radios (a VRC-46 and a Watkins-Johnson 8640) while we went in to talk to the supported commander the day before a two-week field problem kicked off. Two hours later, we came back outside to find he'd tuned the WJ to the local rock station and eaten the whole case of C-rations. And no, he didn't shit once during the entire exercise.