Project Hiding Places

[ArmySGT.]

Cache Fuel.
(a wholly owned subsidiary of Morrow Industries)

Cache fuel has been keeping the fleets of our customers rolling since 1977. Let our low costs and convenient locations keep yours rolling whether your fleet is one or 1000. Our simple members only card system allows your drivers to fuel up anytime, even weekends and holidays. Don't pay the high prices of the regular fuel stations and large truck stops! The members feels and surcharge pays for bulk premium fuels at discount prices! Compare and you will see! Come get what you need at the Cache!

In the early years of operational planning for the Morrow Project fuel for everything was going to be a major concern. The fusion power plant was yet to come along. The fleet of vehicles envisioned was going to be large and fuel consumption was going to be high. How do you store vast quantities of fuel and rotate it so that the fuel remains fresh? How do you preposition that fuel in locations where you can use it and keep the deception going? The answer is to hide it and not hide it at all.

The Cache Fuel program was initiated to emplace fuel points for Project vehicles that will be conveniently located off of rural highways and away from high value targets. The Cache Fuel chain looks and operates as a regular commercial fleet discount fuel center. The site consists of a small 10x20 single story poured concrete secure building for housing the computer card system, customer order tracking system, security camera system, and other expected systems. This building also holds a 60Kw electrical generator and automatic switching unit. This will start the generator and disconnect the power from the power companies grid. The lot is large, often far larger than expected to be with the perimeter enclosed by a continuous poured concrete wall except for the inbound and outbound gates. The lot is designed for one way traffic, with pumping stations for four gasoline vehicles and six diesel vehicles typically accommodated. The underground tanks hold diesel fuel, two grades of unleaded fuel, and one pump that dispenses kerosene.

The Cache Fuel program sites prior to fusion power supplies were expected to run on the local power grid, then by a onsite generator. This generator was an on demand system. The person requesting fuel would press a start generator button on the exterior of the onsite building. Pressing this start button would cause the generator to start and run for 10 minutes, or as long as fuel pumps were running. In this way back up power for the fuel pumps was always available, but not consuming fuel when not necessary. This was true through the 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1980s many were shutdown and updated, then returned to business.

The underground tanks act and appear as expected for such a system. What is not apparent is that there are more tanks than the surface filling points indicate. The additional tanks are fed by transfer pumps from the regular storage tanks. These lines and transfer pumps also act as a buffer against fire or explosion. The additional tanks are plumbed directly to the fuel pumps and access is only granted to that fuel when a Morrow Project ID is inserted into the card reader at the pump. The reader will ask for Team designation, Project, Civilian, or Govt vehicle, and advise that only 100 gallons maximum is allowed per 24 hour period, then dispense fuel. The additional tanks hold a reserve that is hidden from government confiscation, theft, and armed banditry.

This system has setup multiple fuel caches across several states, keeps the fuel fresh and rotated, and actually makes a profit that pays for upkeep, and expansion.

After 150 years, the fusion power systems are still dormant, but the fuels have deteriorated and not usable. The system can be put into use with fresh fuel and the gasoline tanks and pumping system are made to also accommodate ethanol fuel.

[ArmySGT.]

"Discovery Play!" A non-profit historical preservation society. (A wholly owned subsidiary of Morrow Industries)

A hands on museum for children of all ages! Good for school outings, home school projects, and family outings for kids that love machines (Moms and Dads too!)

Come see windmills, water pumps, steam powered machines of all sorts, see how tools were made in the last century! Live demonstrations of horse shoeing, wagon rides, and many exhibits that cna be touched, turned, and made to run!

"Discovery Play!" is a PR operation for Morrow Industries and operates both as an educational endowment and a tax write off. Bruce knew the failure rate of many high tech portions of the infrastructure. Bruce also knew how important it was to have people who knew how the old ways worked. So this set up helped the Morrow Project locate people with the passion and the knowledge. Didn't hurt that MP personnel could rotate in and receive hands on training themselves. Lastly the "Discovery Play!" center was situated away from probable nuclear targets and still within large urban centers. This is intended to bridge the gap between the loss of life/infrastructure and the arrival of aid/services.

Coal/wood fired boilers turn generators. Steam drives a sawmill. A foundry can cast parts. A blacksmith(s) can forge tools. It is the core to rebuild with providing one has the people and the structure is not destroyed or looted.

Typically there is no cache here. Though possibly shelters under exhibits and an outrageous amount of coal and a charcoal operation in onsite storage.

[ArmySGT.]

They that came before us. We are here today because of them. We are proud to descend from their lineage and protect this great nation. A legacy that will live on as long as an American can shoulder a Rifle and take up a Hatchet to defend this proud Republic.

This landmark erected with funds and donations by the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Special Warfare Center, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines of the Special Operations Community, and their associations.



Cache was a word in the Special Operations Community long before the Morrow Project was envisioned. In the fervency of the Cold War many contingency plans were conceived, written, then abandoned as unfeasible. From out of nowhere the right equipment came at the right time to make it all work. Cryosleep tubes could preserve the warriors. Other techniques could keep them equipped and supplied.

Contingencies have contingencies. Plan A has a plan B. This is one such contingency. Starting in the 1980s with the plan to emplace A teams in cryosleep, several modes to equip them to fight a guerilla war on American soil were engaged.

There always exists the possibility in Special Operations that all goes wrong, sideways, less than expected, into a sh*t sandwich. That calls for SF Personnel to break contact and run. Abandon anything but each other and allies, to break and run. From experience in WW2 and since the SOF from American and Allied units learned to emplace material, captured or supplied) to re-equip themselves and get back into the fight.

Each of these statues exists as a marker for a SF cache. There can be probably one in any small town, and more than one in any medium or large city. The cache is under the statue but the entrance is buried beside it. These are not specific to anyone A Team. All of them know what to look for should they need it. This is not a large cache by any measure. It will only provide what a SF soldier could carry on their person as a fighting and sustainment load. Typically a rifle or smg, a pistol, web gear, and a rucksack with sleeping system, cooking equipment, assort clothing, medical supplies. There isn't anything in the cache that needs a battery. All was emplaced as quickly as possible and assumed to be in place for 20+ years.

[stormlion1]

Monuments make good places to bury a cache, biggest problem would be to get it into place. A construction project or a cleaning detail would make good cover for that. Plenty of monuments around too, from the Revolutionary War to the Modern Day monuments are up and standing. Might be interesting if some supplies were put into the bases of statues as well. If one has a Bronze Plaque with screws have a empty space behind it, all a SOF would have to do is take out four screws and get to the gear. And not have to dig.

[Gelrir]

Heh, not entirely sure that hiding your gear in/under "patriotic" monuments is a good idea if fighting a guerrilla war is envisioned.

Once the godless commies knock down a couple of monuments and find a cache of military gear, they'll happily knock down all the patriotic monuments. Or, if even one person rats out the SF teams, again, the monuments come down.

Better, perhaps, to choose something that's not ( a ) in front of where the Peoples' Provisional Government will be operating or standing guard, ( b ) built on an easily-recognizable theme, and ( c ) behind a potentially-valuable piece of copper or bronze.

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Michael B.

[Gelrir]

Sounds a lot like Operation Gladio!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

... which was mighty unsavory.

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Michael B.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Gelrir

Heh, not entirely sure that hiding your gear in/under "patriotic" monuments is a good idea if fighting a guerrilla war is envisioned.

Once the godless commies knock down a couple of monuments and find a cache of military gear, they'll happily knock down all the patriotic monuments. Or, if even one person rats out the SF teams, again, the monuments come down.

Better, perhaps, to choose something that's not ( a ) in front of where the Peoples' Provisional Government will be operating or standing guard, ( b ) built on an easily-recognizable theme, and ( c ) behind a potentially-valuable piece of copper or bronze.

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Michael B.

This is not an A Teams primary or Secondary cache. This is an emergency known to all snake eater teams. It is very light. Just a fighting load.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Gelrir

Heh, not entirely sure that hiding your gear in/under "patriotic" monuments is a good idea if fighting a guerrilla war is envisioned.

Once the godless commies knock down a couple of monuments and find a cache of military gear, they'll happily knock down all the patriotic monuments. Or, if even one person rats out the SF teams, again, the monuments come down.

Better, perhaps, to choose something that's not ( a ) in front of where the Peoples' Provisional Government will be operating or standing guard, ( b ) built on an easily-recognizable theme, and ( c ) behind a potentially-valuable piece of copper or bronze.

--
Michael B.

A tomb in every cemetery dedicated to the memory of William Donovan would be sufficient too.

[stormlion1]

A tomb in every cemetery dedicated to Bill Donovan would be awesome!