The Resupply Blog

Short answerSend pre-ground or single-serve pods rather than whole bean, because grinders are rare downrange. Vacuum sealed or valve-bagged coffee survives four to six weeks of transit. Skip anything glass, anything that needs refrigeration, and anything requiring equipment they do...

Nobody goes to a combat zone for the coffee. But everyone who's been there has a coffee story. Here's the unofficial field manual for surviving deployment on whatever caffeine you could scrounge — ranked from the bottom of the barrel to the stuff that made you briefly forget where you were.