Bonus points if you also used the stove and double points if your cup was the old, single handle model.
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You bet,most excellent for ramen in the field.
MaMa ramen
Wow, someone else knows about MaMa Ramen…. Cobra Gold in Thailand introduced me to the best field food; MaMa brand ramen.
Haha, I’ve used all of those items, but none were ever issued to me, if that’s what you meant. I originally preferred the old folding L handle, but I now think the butterfly handles are better.
How many extra points if I used one with one handle, on the stove, in the field, and then managed to turn it in to CIF?
Mostly on top of a pot belly stove in Korea.
Yup, SERE school, cooked with it on an open fire. Then CIF wouldn’t accept it.
Yes, All of them. The stove is a brilliant design.
Sure have and still carry the new uk crusader cup and cooker with dragon fuel gel!!
Got everyone beat. I field tested these, and the early test models had an odd six sided bottom configuration which drove everyone mad because they didn’t fit either the canteen, or the canteen carrier properly. Never fielded which I attribute to a rare moment in US Army history when someone with good sense prevailed. To this day, no one knows what that six sided bottom was all about. This had to be early 70’s (71-73, maybe). I later heard that it might have been a U.K. version the Army was looking to adopt but that might have just been the beer talking, or my beer ears. All of this mayhem happened when the steel canteen went away.
All of the above.
By far the thing I used it for most was field mocha – 2/3 canteen cup of water, add 4 MRE coffee packets and three sugars while heating it over a heat tab. Once it’s hot and the sugar dissolved, add 3 creamers and 3 or 4 cocoa packets. Stir very well and share – perfect breakfast for 4 people.
Also used to make some really creative stuff with ramen, MRE pork patty, cheese spread and hot sauce. Pain to clean the cup afterwards but totally worth it.
Had some engraved with team name and symbol and gave them out as Xmas gifts this year to the guys. I drink my coffee in one every morning.
Yes, the single handled model for many years. Heated up lots of coffee over exhaust pipes on equipment.
When I switched MOS’s from Parachute Rigger to 11B in 1997, my rifle company issued me an L-handled canteen cup that was stamped 1945. Everyone preferred the L-handled versions, since that was what was carried by the Vietnam vets (they were our heroes).
Also longer reach, cooler, more robust, & better for bailing.
They also have the slot for a bayonet so you can extend your reach even further. Need to dig mine out of the garage.
Back in the day IF you could find a heat and IF you could find the tiny tabasco bottles you could make field chili.
Start with a dehydrated pork patty, break it up and add some water. Let is soak some. Through in the packets of beans and cheese. Put the tabasco in. Heat it up. Just before you eat it break up the cracker into it.
Used both single and double handle
Air Force Survival School, Fairchild AFB, February 2001. Double handle. Enough snow on the ground to use snowshoes. Good times.
Still do, but not US mfg.
Stainless steel & L handle.
No we have an absolutely terrible substitute you can’t put hot drinks in.
Mostly for shaving in with cold water. Gotta have a fresh shave in the field! Left over shaving cream and facial hair with cammie paint thickens up the chicken broth served in the hot ration containers brought out to the perimeter when it was cold in the desert.
I have four. Two to use that are burnt to hell and two newish looking ones when I finally make the pilgrimage to CIF for the “final out”.
Good news on that front. I just did the final out, after 26 years…they barely looked at my canteen cup. In fact, they were pretty easy to deal with all the way around. CIF has changed since the last time I cleared (back when you didn’t drag your issue with you on a PCS).
All of the above and used it to shave in and heat water to take a whore bath with.
L Handle all the way! Just make sure it’s fully locked or it can seriously F you up!
Yes! Even shaved out of it on a frosty morn, looking in the mirror of one of the last of the M-151 jeeps (87..?)
Are the canteen and canteen cup really gone from Army issue..? I recall an interview a head guy at Camelback, some 20 years ago, where he expressed that killing off the canteen was one of his principal goals for the company.
As a kid I had an L-handle canteen cup, and a WWII steel canteen, in a canvas pouch hanging on my M1 Garand bandolier style belt (the pouches for the M1 en bloc clips were each filled with two tubes of “Daisy Golden BBs” – weighed a ton, but damn, I was NEVER going to run out of ammo for my BB gun!), and always had metallic tasting water at hand!
Have my original 1944 which I smacked out of shape with an AAV-7 hatch at CAX decades ago.
Still use it, but the current issue one doesn’t have a rolled rim so if you heat up coffee or hot liquid in it, you won’t burn your lips on the rim while your liquid gets cold.
Along with the P-38, poncho, poncho liner, sleep shirt, field jacket liner, and jungle boot, this is one of America’s greatest inventions.
As of 2009, the bi-handle versions were still being inspected for cleanliness and serviceability in the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School.
I’ve used them all. Ah the memories.
Holy crap, how else are you supposed to heat up (burn down!) coffee/tea/soup/whatever in the ‘troop berthing’ compartments on an Amphib ship after meal hours?!?!?
Even being a Squid, I quickly learned that that thing was a lot of Marine grunt’s (metaphorical) equivalent to duct tape, but slightly better bc it meant hot food sometimes!
Yes, yes, no. My son uses it for Scouts now.
Currently deployed to Ukraine. I have an old slightly beat to sh*t L handle that I love, picked it up as a kid from an old WWII ETO Vet’s estate. I say that this is the second trip this cup has made to Europe to some of the other guys, (always ask why my cup is different). I use some new school equipment to make my field coffee, Jet Boil and a Primila Coffee Buddy, pour over coffee in the field keeps you warm through a cold Ukrainian winter. So much better than the butterfly handle. Best cup ever! I will never give it up.
Carried two – one for drinking out of and one for shaving out of. Always busted my hips during a jump but worth having them.
I guess I get all the bonus points too. Many memories of eating, shaving and cleaning oneself out of one of these.
I got rid of all of mine years ago. There are newer, modern versions of these that fit around the bottom of a Nalgene bottle.
Used a L-handle as a Boy Scout in the ’60s along with the two stamped piece metal canteen. Metallic tasting water.
As an adult used the bi-wing handle with a plastic canteen. Plastic tasting water.
When my sons were Scouts, they preferred the 32 oz. Nalgene bottle with a steel bi-winged handle cup that fit over the end of the Nalgene bottle. One brand of cup had stamped volume markings allowing it to be used for rehydrating freeze-dried backpacker meals with a precise amount of hot water. They heated the water with a cannister fuel pocket stove.
Used these both as a cadet, NG and Active. Never got the stove issued, but used these for coffee a few times. Still have one in the garage for camping. I did however use the Arctic canteen and cup while at CWOC and that was pretty nice.
I have so much great memories with it. I love how it’s perfectly sized for 1 man compared to other expensive options in outdoor market.
By the way if you’re looking for quality, new stainless steel canteen from reliable source, Self Reliance Outfitters makes nice canteen cook set. It’s made by Dave Canterbury.
“It’s made by Dave Canterbury.” Technically, it’s designed by Dave, made by China.
Well… you don’t say..
Carried two (was an attention to detail thing from the Recondo School packing list), from 85 to 02. Two cups and a stove are still packed away in my old LBE.
Only single handled canteen cup I’ve used is one of these
http://www.battleboysurplus.com/assets/images/arctic%20canteen%20cup.jpg
I always kept two one for moca the other for ramen an dehydrated beef pattie
What do you mean ‘used to’? Still have them in my canteens, the cups (and one is a single-handle), the stove, and heat tabs…
Too many fond memories.
Those who haven’t been often don’t realize how such small things are motivation enhancers. These were the center of many a moment others would say were best forgotten.
I had two. One for shaving and one for coffee and ramen. I hated how the two handles moved. I went to the off base surplus shop and bought the L handle one. Much better for hot chow and coffee. I bought a $20 electric razor at clothing sales. No more cold water shaving. The whole squad would use that razor. It did make a totally none tactical buzzing sound. Good times