Pondering it a bit: Damocles may have considered the canonical "Snake Eaters" as the last reserve to investigate the Morrow Project. For all we know, hundreds or thousands of people were frozen by the government ... in much the same manner as the Rich Five ... and then woke up a year, or five years, or ten years after the War. Without Morrow Industries Magic, their efforts to rebuild America were doomed ... or they turned into warlords, or were suborned by the Rich Five (whose companies may well have been building the government's cryogenic capsules, for example).
Thus, Damocles may have been "saving" a last few Snake Eater teams for the Morrow Project. Their original orders (when they were awake) may not have mentioned much about the Project -- one among a multitude of important things to do after the apocalypse; but when they awaken, Damocles says "check out the MP".
Which all leads to: why aren't there Snake Eater teams looking into the Rich Five, or the Frozen Chosen? The Rich Five are, within an order of magnitude, about the same size as the Morrow Project. Of course, nothing says there weren't such Snake Eater teams; or that the Rich Five aren't on the general Snake Eater target list.
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"Hmm, who to chase after: idealistic scientists dedicating to rebuilding America ... or, a bunch of neo-fascists who've built up a slave empire? Sergeant, plot us a route to Kentucky!"
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Michael B