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are used most frequently during military life, such as easy-wash water bottles
with enhanced thermal cooling functions and sleeping bags with improved filling
materials.
As for personal gears, in order to ensure that servicemembers in each battalion can
exercise their combat power to the fullest extent, the MND distributed a set of gears
including bulletproof vests and helmets, personal tents, and tactical backpacks and
Military Meal vests across all GOP divisions (combat units) by 2015. It plans to supply the set to
Upgrade Project
all servicemembers by 2020. The MND is minimizing the overlapping of functions
between items caused by the practice of developing and improving items based
on single units, and is in the process of developing a clothing layering system to
6)
Meals and clothing
monitoring group enhance both thermal and convenience functions even if clothing and gears are worn
comprised of mothers
in layers.
6) The MND will continue its efforts to develop and improve clothing and personal
Clothing layering system,
as the word "layering" gears in a manner that reflects the future battlefield environment and improves the
suggests, is a functional
clothing system that welfare of servicemembers, and will enhance the combat power of the military by
prevents heat loss in
humans due to weather distributing improved clothing and personal gears early on.
(temperature, wind,
and rain) and physical
conditions (sweat,
breathing), among others. Healthy and Safe Diet The ROK Armed Forces provides safe, nutritious,
7) and balanced meals designed to maintain the health
After referring to a research and combat power of servicemembers. Considering the amount of daily activities
conducted by KIDA,
the nutrition standards and energy consumption of servicemembers due to education and training, meals are
for servicemembers
were reset from 3,100 planned and provided based on a 3,000 kcal standard , which is higher than the
7)
kcal to 3,000 kcal after
considering the changes in regular adult standard of 2,600 kcal. In addition, the MND continues to raise the
the physical conditions and
military living conditions of basic meal expenses for servicemembers to provide them with high-quality meals
8)
servicemembers.
preferred by the new generation of servicemembers.
8)
Expenses purely incurred
by food including main
menus, side dishes, and [Chart 7-6] Increase of Daily Basic Meal Expenses per Servicemember
desserts.
(As of December 2019, unit: KRW, %)
9) Year 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Seasoned and stewed
beef ribs, frozen fried rice Unit price 7,190 7,334 7,481 7,855 8,012 8,493
(japchae, whole shrimp),
beef bulgogi rice with Rate of 5.0 2.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 6.0
sauce, sweet and sour increase
pork, chicken tenders, 6
types of ramen with rice
(snacks), peeled chestnut, Meals are planned based on servicemembers’ preferences as identified through
shine muscat, blueberry,
honey, milk (side dish), annual satisfaction surveys. In 2020, the MND increased the amount of food
sea eel, freshwater snail,
cockle, scallops, trout, preferred by servicemembers, such as pork, ginseng chicken soup, duck meat, and
Korean sandlance, dried
pollack head, sand lance beef ribs. In addition, more than 20 items, including sea eel, blueberry, and Shine
extract, wild seafood pack,
9)
etc. Muscat grapes, have been selected as new food items through tasting events or test

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