How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by safisher

Back in the early 1990s there was an expected earthquake in NE Arkansas.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/...ryId=941700708

In response, the Arkansas National Guard, of which I was a part at that time, prepared for it. We went through training (I learned Heavy Urban Search and Rescue and advanced first aid) and prepositioned supplies. Our armory was full of pallets of water and MREs.

Your armory could have been a site for pre-planned civil defense feeding point, for something called Continuity of Operations or Continuity of Government. That means there could be anything on site for that purpose, from supplies and ammo to food and water.

https://www.gpo.gov/docs/default-sou...2017FCD1-2.pdf

This document suggests at least 30 days of supplies.

All true except his campaign is set in the early 1980's, very shortly after the official roll out of the MRE program. (IIRC roll out 1981 campaign 1983). Also the plan was 'use up stocks of CRI then restock by ordering MRE'. Since the location is a Guard/Reserve Armory in all likelihood they will not have depleted the CRI stocks enough, so no MRE's will have been even ordered, nevermind fulfilled.

10 years is a long time in terms of feeding the troops, if it were the same Armory in 1993 then yes the rations to be found would be MREs.

Guess the good (?) news is that they will have lots of handy (?) tin cans.