MRE BOXES BECOME INFANT INCUBATORS. Emergency medical workers also found novel ways to use different parts of the MRE packaging and cases they come in, something familiar to Soldiers.

From 1993 to 2000, the Frankfurters, Beef, Menu #6 MRE wreaked havoc on the bowels of service members everywhere and gained a moniker befitting their villainy: the four fingers of death.

Childers mentioned that MRE boxes can be used as origami to be built into a structure that a person can stand and walk on.