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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
There were always stories of older, underground warehouses on most major military bases. These held stockpiles for equipment, weapons and ammunition, intended for resupply of the base in the event of a nuclear war. These were supposed to have been emptied out in the 1970s-80s and officially deactived. Still, one wonders....
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LOL. Yeah that has always been an unspoken worry of some of the families in places like K.I. Sawyer AFB.
We both know with the keeping of record on paper, things got lost way too easily.
I often wonder about the stories of small undisclosed caches that one could find on either side of the Iron Curtain. In the case of West Germany, it could be small cache for either side, since it was quite common for Soviet/Pact Officers to pose as truck drivers making deliveries or picking up goods in areas they would be expected to lead troops in. Diving the same roads they might one day move troops over. Many of the ones I have heard stories were small affair in West Germany, maybe able to resupply a cut off Platoon or Company. For the NATO side this was done for troops who were cut off from supply lines.
While on the Pact side many of these cache would of been put emplace by Commanders who felt they may have encounter or two before they got to the border or shortly after crossing it. These forward supply caches would mean their forward units wouldn't have to entirely rely on supplies coming from their bases. Or once they had been dropped off their first supply to front line units, they would go to these points for prompt turn around of replacement.
Just some thoughts.
Abbott