Even forced march under a severe cold of -20℃ was not fatigue enough to
wear down the officers and men of a division of the Shenyang Military Area
Command.
A food revolution is quietly unfolding in a division of the Shenyang
Military Area Command. Instead of sticking to the traditional way of catering in
emergency field operation, the division chooses to draw on the strength of the
computerized decision-making system for wartime catering support and process the
meat, vegetables and eggs into finished and semi-finished products in proper
proportion according to the calorific requirement for high-intensity training
under frigid climate and the standard for ensuring food nutrition. Thanks to
this effort, in emergency field operation, the officers and men just need to
heat the food in the multi-functional cooking vehicle for field operation and
the food will be ready for them--- convenient and nutritious.
Night fell. The troops had no sooner come to a mountain valley for
encampment than a reconnaissance element was ordered to hide in concealment in a
forward position. The reconnaissance element, which had just done a long-range
raid for a whole day, had to set out without having dinner. At the site of
concealment, the reporters saw the officers and men of the reconnaissance
element taking out their well-packed bags of self-heated food from their
backpacks. By rubbing the bags after adding some water or some snow to them,
warm, aromatic and tasty instant food was ready magically.
"Thanks to the fast food for field operation, the officers and men can not
only be ensured hot meals, but also sufficient nutrition," said Xing Jianfei,
head of the logistics section of the division. The traditional food support
pattern of "set up a pot and cook in the field" can't fit in with the fast
changing information warfare, while the fast food for field operation provides
the desirable answer to the food supply problem on the training ground in
winter.
By An Puzhong, Lin Fei, Nan Zhenhai and Ni Yonghu
(Feb 7, PLA Daily)
