What is "mess kits"

Usage examples of "mess kits".

So when our mess kits began to rattle during dog watch, we all burst from our sleeping bags and ran to our defensive positions.

It was with a feeling of relief that he found that mess was not ready, and that men were waiting in line outside the kitchen shack, stamping their feet and clattering their mess kits as they moved about through the chilly twilight of the spring morning.

You know, he didn't win a Medal of Honor for handing out mess kits.

You could hear feet scraping in the ashes of the floor and mess kits clattering against the tables and here and there a man coughing.

There were bows and arrows, targets, tents, canoes, mess kits, and camouflage, and at this hour, I was the only woman who seemed interested.

Then he divided this into two mess kits and covered them and set them aside.

There is the rattle of rifle slings and bayonet scabbards, the clattering of mess kits bouncing in our haversacks.

If I decide you will be in the way, you'll be on the next plane out of here and you'll spend the rest of the war counting mess kits in Barstow.

In addition to clothing there were mess kits, webbing belts, canteens, sewing kits, assassination kits, foxhole diggers, backpacks, VD testers, bayonets, scrokets and more items of dubious or military nature.