Regardless of what ORMO means IRL, I've always seen them as not much more than the local militia. The vast majority of their manpower drawn from the civilian population, and if they're lucky, trained in obsolete tactics by a retired veteran of a previous war and armed with whatever they've been able to lay their hands on (primarily hunting rifles, shotguns home made melee and missile weapons and the odd scrounged military small arm).
Any organised ORMO forces would have been stripped of manpower and decent equipment during the war by both sides. NATO to disarm a potentially hostile population during their offensives through Poland and later to deny the Pact forces during their retreat. Later the Pact would conscript able bodied men and women to replace losses as well as any weapons and especially ammunition.
No army in history (as far as I can recall) has ever knowingly left weapons in the hands of the civilian population. You just never know who is an enemy sympathiser or guerilla, partisan, or member of the resistance. Why would WWIII be any different, especially as the war dragged on and supplies grew scarcer?
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