If you're building a secret underground bunker with cryoberths and a fusion reactor, for (say) every five people ... I'm not sure it makes financial sense to skimp on the supplies and training. I can understand arguments that the Project is too militaristic for a "rebuilding" goal; but the opposite of "armored vehicles and chain guns" is not "Walmart and the surplus store".
Unless the Project is small: not more than a couple thousand people, say.
Security is another issue: having all your newly-recruited Project members scooting all over the country would make a lot of opportunities for leaks; sudden romances with non-Project people; the temptation to tell new friends to "avoid big cities in late 1989"; etc.
I'm not saying it can't be done; but you'll have to ponder what the Project is, how large, etc. A "less formal" Project, without numbered training manuals, a big pyramidal command structure, dozens of security grades, etc. would be an interesting change, maybe.
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Michael B.
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