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Each Project Team has several resupply caches scattered around their operational area. Each cache is stocked with a variety of equipment---including ammunition and spare parts---as well as items of potential assistance to any survivors that the Team may encounter. Team Caches are intended to provide a minimum of basic supplies that will allow the Team to function until contact is made with their Group Commanders.

For security reasons, the field teams are not given specific instructions regarding the location and recovery of their caches, other than that the locations can be called up in their AutoNavs by pushing the CACHE LOCATION button (which gives the team access to 2-10 caches). The Teams are trained that, to locate the nearest one, they simply drive to the point on the map and start looking for the cache. It is hidden/disguised in some manner that would only have meaning for a Project member.

Most caches are buried and, once a hole has been dug down to the cache, entrance is gained by way of a stainless steel hatch assembly on top of the cache. Next to the hatch, underneath a protective, swing-away cover is a card reader (power must be supplied by the Team’s vehicle). Insertion of an MPID Card will allow the hatch to be opened.

The cache itself is a simple concrete box, of varying size, but usually a cube 5-8 meters on a side. It has no internal power source, no lights. Like the bolthole, the cache is filled with an inert gas at a slight overpressure. This gas must be vented through the hatch and it cannot be replaced without special equipment. Any battery powered equipment removed from a cache must have its batteries charged before use. As a safety note, once the hatch has been opened, do not enter the cache for at least ten minutes in order to allow any residue cyro gas to escape.

A manifest of the cache contents is contained on a clipboard located by the ladder next to the hatch. Due to the limited amount of space inside a cache, locating a specific item requires unloading most of the cache order to find it. In addition to the cache’s normal contents, there will often be some team member’s personal effects such as CDs, books or items such as skis or SCUBA equipment.

The cache system is primarily intended to provide supplies to aid in the reconstruction of the area. As such they contain large amounts of seed grain, farming and general construction tools, textbooks, how-to manuals, spare parts for equipment such as power generators and phone systems as well as essential resupply items for the team, usually in the form of rations, trade goods and some ammunition.

Teams also have access to one or two Survivor Assistance Modules (“Camp in a Box”). These are underground dumps consisting of a variety of cargo containers that are intended to create a new, or assist an existing survivor community. Each SAM contains six months of supply for up to 500 people.

Primary resupply for the Teams comes from the various Group and Regional Supply Bases. Group Bases (nicknamed “Seven-Elevens“) are intended to provide the various Operational Groups with up to two years worth of basic supplies. The Regional Supply Bases (nicknamed “Bruce-Marts“) contain massive stocks of supplies as well as basic manufacturing equipment and limited stocks of raw material.

Finally, each Team has access to Emergency Resupply Caches. Each Team will have from two to four of these caches, which are hidden in locations that only the Team will have knowledge of. They contain reissues of personnel equipment and weapons, basic ammunition loadouts and any heavy weapons that the Team may reasonable expect to need. The Emergency Caches (nicknamed “Stash-N-Grabs”) are intended to provide only combat-orientated and basic survival equipment.