Recovery boxes.

[mmartin798]

I often thought the Project planners would go with largish bases with maybe a thousand containers in the 20' and 40' size. The idea being that there should be a number of trucks that can be made operation to supplement what the Project has. A recon team identifies needs in area and a kit is sent there. The obvious components are 20' liquid carriers with water and diesel fuel, 40' ones with emergency rations, seeds and the like. Generator, fusion or conventional, could also be added to the kit as needed. Medical could be 20' or 40', depending on the size of the need. The containers can either be emptied and used for shelter, field hospital or other quick structural need; or sent with leftover supplies or the generator to help jump start the next area.

The whole idea is to allow the Project to be flexible with the supplies they have and to be able to send just enough of one thing to a community rather than too much or too little. That is how I see it working.

[ArmySGT.]

I have considered another approach to both Team weapons resupply caches and these considered recovery caches.

Time delay release.

Essentially, all of these caches are stored in the Autonav. The caches are not however, displayed until an elapsed time. So the Team still gets their six resupply caches just not all at once. After a time delay set by the planners (GM tool) cache #1 will appear on the autonav. This could be relatively short for areas determined to have a high probability of hostile contact, such as urban centers. The opposite would be true for a low population density area like rural western Kansas or central Nevada.

Something that is intended for aid to the survivors may be immediate like a cache of medical supplies or available after seven to thirty days to give time to recon and assess the operational areas.

The Combined Group Leader's MP ID would override this feature on any team autonav in that leaders Group.

Too much?

[Matt W]

Small cache: several water-quality test kits, several books on useful topics (mostly health guides like "When there is no Doctor"). At least one windup radio


These caches should be plentiful. They would be enclosed in a PVC cylinder. about 1metre long 20 cm wide and in an easily accessible and standard location - for example - "in the parking lot of XYZ grocery, under the concrete trash bins" . This location should be freely given to survivors. No need to keep them secret.
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Medium caches: Tools for clearing roads and a "radio station in a suitcase" . Also some more advanced books on health and engineering.
This would be a 1 metre cube. buried beneath a billboard

Large cache: Now this will need thought and perhaps a list :-)

[stormlion1]

You also have to remember that most of the gear could be prepositioned without being hidden. Remember the teams were going to be awoken 3-5 years after a nuclear war not 150 that happened. So it could be thought that construction equipment, raw materials, or trailers full of goods could be left out in the open for some time. Parking Aircraft in the desert for a few years sealed wouldn't even be an issue. But after 150 its all scrap.

[.45cultist]

A good cover would be cell towers, they need a large hole for the foundation any way. Additional packages for comm or weather/radiation sensor suites could be incorperated.

[bobcat]

Personally i tend to run these already. one of my favorite Caches is for a village/team school pack. similar to the UN school in a box kit these are slightly increased to also provide adult education on topics such as medicine, engineering, small engine repair, and certain other trades deemed needed (at the PD's discretion) at boom +5 years.

also the Global village construction kit is a common one for me often with actual constructions supplies on hand given that the local home depot has probably been looted at boom +5 years.

[kato13]

This site has been a favorite of mine for years

http://procurement.ifrc.org/catalogue/

It is a catalog for Red Cross equipment. I liked it because for many kits it has the shipping weight and volume which are really important for project planning.