What a Military Supply Depot Contains

Black Leviathan · 01-18-2022, 02:17 PM

In my pretty limited Military Experience, every supply section of a base or supply-oriented location has three things if nothing else.

It has a dusty storage area about the size of a small warehouse full of decommissioned equipment that can't be unloaded on anyone. WW 2 Radar Systems, MREs 30 years out of date, Cases of used Fatigues that aren't regulation anymore. There's so much of this stuff in any base that it's climbing the walls in back rooms. There will additionally be a room that's exclusively base equipment that has nowhere to go, desks-stacked-on-desks going back to WW1, portraits of former presidents, defunct state or core flags.

It has files, so many files, 5+ years of records of everything that has ever happened in that base, correspondence, service records, every transfer of every chicken wing. Rooms full of paper files.

It has multi-purpose rooms that serve no purpose. Just all of these empty rooms that aren't quite big enough for an event hall but maybe uncomfortably large for a meeting, that aren't being used for storage or office space. Sometimes the rooms have been temporarily purposed for something to entertain troops but often it's a giant carpeted room with a stack of UPS boxes just inside the door that were supposed to be returned to sender years ago.

01-18-2022, 02:17 PM	#8
Black Leviathan Join Date: Sep 2018	Re: What a Military Supply Depot Contains In my pretty limited Military Experience, every supply section of a base or supply-oriented location has three things if nothing else. It has a dusty storage area about the size of a small warehouse full of decommissioned equipment that can't be unloaded on anyone. WW 2 Radar Systems, MREs 30 years out of date, Cases of used Fatigues that aren't regulation anymore. There's so much of this stuff in any base that it's climbing the walls in back rooms. There will additionally be a room that's exclusively base equipment that has nowhere to go, desks-stacked-on-desks going back to WW1, portraits of former presidents, defunct state or core flags. It has files, so many files, 5+ years of records of everything that has ever happened in that base, correspondence, service records, every transfer of every chicken wing. Rooms full of paper files. It has multi-purpose rooms that serve no purpose. Just all of these empty rooms that aren't quite big enough for an event hall but maybe uncomfortably large for a meeting, that aren't being used for storage or office space. Sometimes the rooms have been temporarily purposed for something to entertain troops but often it's a giant carpeted room with a stack of UPS boxes just inside the door that were supposed to be returned to sender years ago.