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Originally Posted by stormlion1
Its not that they were being given out of date equipment, its what's reasonable that can be made to disappear in the late 80's into a Snake Eater equipment cache. Jeeps are a dime a dozen, very easy to maintain, rugged, and usable by a specops team in a nuclear environment. The Gov't can make dozens of them disappear without raising suspicions while making a few Hummers go missing will raise eyebrows. The Snake Eaters are going to be armed with the best equipment they have, M-16's, CAR-15's, Colt Pistols, etc, etc but that's minor league stuff that can be written off as destroyed in a exercise. Old and still crated M-1's and M-14's can be written off as sold as surplus or destroyed, Writing off a new Hummer is a bigger issue as would writing off a newer helicopter.
In fact, too much new stuff goes missing could in fact lead to someone noticing and trying to find out where all that gear is going. Its better to use older outdated gear at that point.
Now if your using the new Morrow Project book/PDF, I could see Hummers and Strykers going into caches as well as more modern firepower without raising suspicions. Just write it all off as lost or sold in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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Exactly.
The stuff going in, can't be missed. Therefore, it has to be surplus, purchased off books, confiscated/captured, purchased as one offs (urgent need or test subject), or some future system that advances past prototype but, then shut down.
The stuff discussed so far is what to arm a populace with, to form partisans or resistance groups.
Think about how SF operates....... not in tanks, helicopters, or large armed ships. The blend in, move clandestinely, operate within the local populace. Their missions are intelligence gathering and sabotage.
M151 jeeps with gasoline engines already refit to burn pure ethanol are fine. Civilian vehicles refit in the same manner, delivery vans, pickups, SUVs.....
Their weapons, body armor, medicine, and commo is going to be state of the art at the time they are frozen, or atleast of recent vintage. The Snake eaters of Ft. Morrow (Ruins of Chicago) have M-14s (because the authors didn't like the M-16). The snake eater in Lonestar is the last one from his team and has no gear. The snake eater from Fallback has little equipment but, there are 4-5 more of them.
Only in Ruins of Chicago is it hinted there are more caches for the GBs. However, there isn't anything about them stating size or number only that they lean heavily towards weapons and munitions.
So I intend to keep the GBs lean......... they don't have every nice gadget that could be desired. They do have what they need to jump start a resistance group against Soviet occupation or against rogue U.S. forces becoming warlords.
Now in Canon, the Canadians are part of the Snake eaters program..... So how do you integrate them and how much does Ottawa know about the Morrow Project?