Canadian 🇨🇦 and Slovenian 🇸🇮 soldiers swap rations

Every army in NATO has its own field ration, commonly known as MREs (meals-ready-to-eat). While perhaps not the height of culinary expression, these rations give soldiers the calories they need to power through a hard day in the field. From Ally to Ally, their contents differ in small, interesting ways.

Watch a Canadian and Slovenian soldier swap their ration packs at NATO’s multinational battlegroup in Latvia. There’s a lot of beef on the menu, from jerky to goulash and ravioli, with some Tabasco sauce on offer for that extra heat!

The multinational battlegroup in Latvia is led by Canada and has troops from 10 other Allied countries, including Albania, Czechia, Iceland, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Our participants are Canadian Army Master Corporal Michael Vernon and Slovenian Army Private Teja Tropan.

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[Maplemoose]

Here’s a story from the past. Dad served with the Parachute Regiment from 1943 to 1957. Then we came to Canada and he joined the Canadian army. He told me on his first day he was in the mess hall in line for breakfast and one of the cooks came up the line asking the troops how they wanted their eggs. When he asked dad, he didn’t quite understand him. “How do you want your eggs. Sunny side up, scrambled, omelette?” A dad said “you’re going to cook me eggs how I want them”. Dad said he thought he’d died and gone to heaven.

[DuckyTheFox]

"We always start off by eating the matches" man must be some canadian variant of a marine

[JacobIL]

Loved watching this video! Supporting our troops from Canada 🍁🇨🇦

[phillipsalvadorlee]

They should make episodes such as this with other NATO nations. It would be a phenomenal series. Countries sharing cultural differences can still have fun

[Ran-tan-tan]

These two had great chemistry! I would watch a series that starred them!

[ronpekkala]

That was cute! Thank the both of you for this and thanks to whomever thought this up.

[captainbroady]

These type of videos shows why NATO is the best military alliance to have ever existed. It's not about the destructive power of their weapons or the size of their defence budget. It's about the people :D

[onr-oh]

Lovely energy between these two people! Very good video!

[MrKbtor]

I admire their honesty with each other. True friendship.

[garethrooney]

Love to see one with a US marine opening his ration of Crayola crayons

[tasmanius]

I always love these videos! Keep us safe NATO! 🇨🇦🤝🇸🇮 Warm regards from North Carolina!

[SolWake]

The energy here is just unbelievably cute and wholesome!

[dougcoombes]

I love these, there has never been an alliance like NATO.

Proud to be Canadian and proud to be part of NATO.

[stuartdollar]

I love these. It's amazing just how well NATO brings all of these countries together for a common purpose. There's never been a relationship like NATO before.

[RobinBudik]

Wow 2 nations I being a Czech adore ❤❤❤ 🇨🇿♥️🇸🇮♥️🇨🇦.
God bless NATO 😍😍

[charleshamilton]

Slovenia and Canada: two of the most awesome countries in the world. 🌈 This was great fun to watch!

[haustimp]

Never though NATO was gonna turn into my new favorite content creator haha

[chuckclark]

👍👍👍👍 I love these two together. They actually laughed together more than some of the other ones I’ve been watching lol.

[seangutierrez]

I love these kinds of videos from NATO! Keep up the Ration Swap videos, Allies!

[JJ.Knight.]

Love seeing this 😊 Countries getting along and prospering.