Service members in our nation’s armed forces might make fun of their emergency and on-the-go rations, but it looks like bears don’t have the same qualms. Military officials said a group of bears broke in and stole soldiers’ rations.
The U.S. military stockpiles “meals ready to eat” – better known as MREs. They’re full meals that can be eaten quickly and easily by just tearing open a bag. Accessing the food is so easy, apparently, even a bear can do it.
Recently, hungry bears broke into a storage room at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, fittingly nicknamed JBER and pronounced like “jay bear,’ and helped themselves to a ready-to-eat feast.
It’s not just food the bears seem to be after at the base. At the beginning of this month, a young bear was spotted inside a Humvee at a motor pool building.
Base officials said they respond to about 600 bear-related calls a year. However, they said it’s very rare for the animals to get inside the buildings.
