Recovery boxes.

[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.
:
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.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by 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.

Thanks, I bookmarked that one.

This also gives me some ideas for Snakeeater, FEMA, and New Presidencies caches or items.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Thanks, I bookmarked that one.

This also gives me some ideas for Snakeeater, FEMA, and New Presidencies caches or items.

Here are some links that allow you to see more data at once
Vol 1
https://books.google.com/books?id=yx...me%201&f=false


Vol 2

http://www.redcross.int/en/eric/eric/itemcode2_ad.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=Cm...me%202&f=false


Vol 3
https://books.google.com/books?id=g4...me%203&f=false


While looking for my copies of the pdf (coping from google takes forever) I found like 100 more documents.

For example Wiki leaks has a document that lists all US equipment in Iraq in 2007 broken down by unit and nsn code. (Prices are available for about 1/5 of the NSN codes)

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Milita...raq_%282007%29

Explanation of NSN (Nato Stock? Number)
http://www.wingovernmentcontracts.co...groups-fsg.htm

http://www.wingovernmentcontracts.co...ly-classes.htm

I'm not pleased with the source, but information is information. I downloaded this years ago and never played with it until today. In fact the data is still loading 60 min after I started it.

I don't know how detailed the information goes, but looking at the first portion that loaded I can see the breakdown of the on hand quantity of trousers for the 332 Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit.

If I can glean some useful information from this I will post it.

In regards to my many other documents If I get some time to sort through them I will post a lot of what i have.

If varies from a database of all tires used by the US Army, to equipment needed for a sustainable village, ammunition packaging details, breakdown of 30 industrial tool-kits, A catalog of barrack furniture, wellwater drilling manual, the army standard family of tactical shelters, and much more.