{"id":11249,"date":"2009-06-05T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2009-06-05T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T13:16:31","slug":"mre-black-market-ring-busted-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11249","title":{"rendered":"MRE black market ring busted up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I&#8217;ll admit that MREs are better than C-Rats and the old freeze-dried LRRP Meals, but the Meals Ready to Eat (we called them Meals Rejected by Ethiopians) certainly weren&#8217;t good enough to profit from, it seems to me. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=63125\">Stars and Stripes<\/a> reports that a South Korean black market MRE ring has been rounded up; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police on Wednesday charged 51 South Koreans for illegally selling imported food and violating the country\u2019s Food Safety Act, a department spokesman said. No Americans were arrested, and the spokesman said it would be impossible to track them down.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesman, who spoke on the customary condition of anonymity, the department began tracking the ring after getting a tip in mid-April.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, police have confiscated 50 boxes of MREs that were for sale in traditional outdoor markets across the country, including Seoul\u2019s Namdaemun, Dongdaemun, Sincheon and Cheonggyecheon markets, and in the cities of Uijeongbu, Dongducheon, Incheon and Bucheon. Police believe MREs \u2014 each packaged in a plastic casing that says &#8220;US Government Property Commercial Resale is Unlawful&#8221; \u2014 are being sold in other cities across the country as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people said they like the MREs because they taste really good,&#8221; the spokesman said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, maybe compared to kim-chi they taste good.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I&#8217;ll admit that MREs are better than C-Rats and the old freeze-dried LRRP Meals, but &hellip; <a title=\"MRE black market ring busted up\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11249\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MRE black market ring busted up<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}