Check This Picture Out

[machman]

How is that different than beer or mixed spirit drink in aluminum cans in the liquor store?

Beer (& cooler) cans are lined.

 

[Claven2]

Beer (& cooler) cans are lined.

Lined with what? I've never noticed any lining.

Myth 4: Drinking out of aluminum cans or cooking in aluminum pots and pans can lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
Reality: During the 1960s and 1970s, aluminum emerged as a possible suspect in Alzheimer’s. This suspicion led to concern about exposure to aluminum through everyday sources such as pots and pans, beverage cans, antacids and antiperspirants. Since then, studies have failed to confirm any role for aluminum in causing Alzheimer’s. Experts today focus on other areas of research, and few believe that everyday sources of aluminum pose any threat.

https://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_myths_about_alzheimers.asp

What about pots and pans?
It would be difficult to significantly reduce exposure to aluminum simply by avoiding the use of aluminum cookware, foil, beverage cans and other products. Use of aluminum in pots and pans only contributes to a very small percentage of the average person's intake of aluminum.

http://alzheimer.ca/en/Home/About-dementia/Alzheimer-s-disease/Risk-factors/Aluminum

 

[machman]

Lined with what? I've never noticed any lining.

From Wiki:
Aluminium cans are coated internally to protect the aluminium from oxidizing. Despite this coating, trace amounts of aluminium can be degraded into the liquid, the amount depending on factors such as storage temperature and liquid composition.[11][12] Chemical compounds used in the internal coating of the can include types of epoxy resin.[13

 

[sail32]

The beer cans like food cans are coated on the inside.

" Ball doesn’t manufacture cans by the billions until after the beverage and the coating and the interaction between the two have been examined. After the company’s engineers examine package-product interaction chemically, they double-check with their tongues. For these studies, there’s the flavor room. During Can School, I got a tour from a tall, thin Ball engineer named Ed Laperle.

Flavor testers at Ball learn to detect parts per million, then parts per billion, and eventually, parts per trillion. If they can’t taste something, nobody can. The one exception may be cats. On account of felines’ extreme organoleptic capacities, wet cat food is packaged in cans with “particularly low levels of taint.”

From; https://www.wired.com/2015/03/secret-life-aluminum-can-true-modern-marvel/

Also; https://www3.epa.gov/airtoxics/coat/mcan/pic-can.pdf

 

[Hitzy]

I didn't say "i" concluded Al = (correction: alhzeimer/dementia).. but these were replaced in the CF with plastic ones, the reason given "Al = cancer (correction: alhzeimer/dementia)".

Like the old melmac plates and cups... we can't now since cancer, or some other health concerns.

In 20 years, plastics will be better, metal = bad,... full circle (again).

Safest to me is glass, but, yeah, it's glass. Next to that, silver.


But back to the photo, it just doesn't feel like it's WW2 era, even not considering the rifle.

It's an M14 and all the trees look like Evergreens...

 

[Claven2]

Nam era photo, but likely in the conus.