That is odd, as when I was in the Gulf in '91, the Americans would do anything to trade for our ration packs, their MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) were ****! According to them.
Oddly enough in todays Guardian Online an interesting article appeared, it seems to feed an army you need a politician on the board....
An arm of Halliburton, the controversial group once headed by US vice-president Dick Cheney, yesterday won a contract worth £350m over seven years to coordinate logistics support for British troops on overseas missions.
Kellogg Brown & Root, which operates Devonport naval dockyard in Plymouth and provides support services for the army in Iraq, is to improve provision of items such as food and tents for the armed forces' joint headquarters at Northwood, north-west London.
The Ministry of Defence, which has also named KBR as preferred bidder for a £4bn contract to upgrade garrisons in Aldershot and on Salisbury Plain, said KBR staff would join military personnel at Northwood.
Acting as a partnering team or "one-stop shop", the team's remit is to deploy support services "rapidly and reliably", after criticism of the lack of equipment and support for troops in last year's war in Iraq.

They should never have gotten rid of the NAAFI!!!

I'll give you a clue Doug, he has more teeth than brain cells and lives at No. 10