How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by bocephus

I maintain that your local Guard post will have at most a weeks worth for the local contingent, unless part of their role is logistic support for regional disaster scenarios (flood/hurricane/etc).

I would mostly agree, except for 'special circumstances'. One of my points was that the local armory would have the contact numbers, addresses, expected ship times, etc, etc, etc for the MRE distribution network.

So if the food on-site starts running low it provides a number of possible adventure threads so the party can 'go get some takeout.'

A lot of the est 5m MREs will be in stockpiles overseas...but also a given is that a lot of the 5m will also be moving its way through the network towards expected end users.

Warehouses at the production facilities, 53' trailers at contracted freight haulers' terminals (or railyards), warehouses at port shipping terminals prior to shipment overseas (ditto for airports for air freight). There are a lot of potential targets that would have a fraction of the network total, but a wonderous amount for a small refugee group.

A group with the right locations, a semi driver, someone who can use a pallet jack, and the initiative to GET THERE FIRST; might eat quite well indeed.

For a little while at least...