I also experienced the GI mess hall and field brewed coffee for 20 years too. I would guess that the best coffee I ever had, was in Vilseck Germany... field brewed coffee. You put a few handfuls of grounds in a "clean" wool sock and tied it in a knot, then heated the water in a metal GI helmet, and after it boils then threw the sock in...
You just don't drink it until it looks dark enough to be coffee... and by that time you are freezing... It just doesn't get any better than that! 
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