Are there any active duty who were served a K ration?

On the first Ship I was on a WWII Rust Bucket, we had to upgrade the survival rations in the Liferafts to modern MRE's and we opened the cans of water (yes, Canned Fresh Water), foods (Like Chicken Chow Main and Beef Stew) and chocolate cakes (already cooked and sealed in the can) and ate them. That was in 1980, to think they were packed in 1943!!! They were good, and we got to sample the extra New MRE's, and the 1943 C Rations were better. We finished the whole thing with smoking a couple of the "Lucky Strikes" that were packed in the Survival Kits... It was Nostalgic!!!<br>

I had K-rations that my friends father gave us when I was in boy scouts.  We weren't too fond of those but I did serve on active duty with C-rats.  It was okay.  Of course, like the MREs, people had recipes.  I still have a C-rat can of ham & slime.  It's from the late 80's.  Peanut butter too.  You could burn that stuff.  The pound cake was the best. The issue with the C-rats was they took up too much room in your pack & left residue (trash).  The empty cans could be hung from some wire in front of your position with some rocks in it to make a perimeter alarm of sorts.  I remember the early MRE's that need so much water to reconstitute & then the T-rations where initially there used to be only creme beef & lasagna.  Out in the field we got fed that twice a day.  Creme beef one meal & lasgnsa the other.  I did two back to back FTX's nearly a month for each one.  I nearly went nuts when I went to the messhall back in garrison & they had lasagna.  Chow has come a long ways since back then.  It's for the better I think.

I was able to enjoy the C-rats at the beginning of my career, but never K-rats, I would still take C-rats over MREs any day, and the T-rats I felt were no good as well. I have been through many levels of field rations and as stated I would still take C-rats over any in the past 30 years.