10-07-2022, 11:38 AM | #11 | |
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
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A better route: Complaints get to General Marshall and he orders the heads of the QC to live on field rations.
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10-07-2022, 12:57 PM | #12 | |
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
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10-07-2022, 01:39 PM | #13 | ||
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
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The good news is that a Forward Support Company offers assets you'd like to have in a post-apocalypse setting: Quote:
Depending on the nature of the disaster, though, the unit has the assets to go out and bring back most classes of supplies from elsewhere (grocery store, distribution center, gas station, etc.). Last edited by thrash; 10-07-2022 at 01:44 PM. |
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10-07-2022, 04:00 PM | #14 | ||
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Athens of America
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
I found an interesting GAO report on da web.
Granted it is from 2015 but it would seem to reflect certain 'best practices' that I would expect might still be in place today. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-15-474.pdf Some interesting highlights: Quote:
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Heck in addition to digital records and procurement trails to follow they might even have some hard copy for when the electric fails...
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10-08-2022, 01:52 AM | #15 |
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
The discussion of QM gives an idea if you want them to have more. A supply sergeant or CO that got shorted once too often and has arranged to have a extra half a dozen pallets stashed in the back of a store room just in case. maybe past the use by date but that is probably still safe.
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10-08-2022, 03:57 AM | #16 | |
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Also this is DoD. So it covers not only all branches of service but logistic support or backup of Consulates, Embassies, and other Govt activities (across the globe, incl refugee and disaster relief). DoD covers a HUGE net, all Ships (which is a big one) all services, and all civilians that are employed directly or via contract. 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). |
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10-08-2022, 05:16 AM | #17 | |
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Athens of America
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
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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...
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10-08-2022, 03:20 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
Flipping this around, a warehouse that already has a supply of MREs is going to be very attractive as a base for any group. Depending on the willingness of the warehouse denizens to negotiate, this is an opportunity for the PCs to make hard choices about bargaining, offering to merge the 2 groups, etc etc, versus murder-hoboing the warehouse (and gaining a reputation as bandits, if any witnesses survive).
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10-08-2022, 05:30 PM | #19 | |
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
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Of the people who worked in the terminal 4-10ish, I was one of the people who knew what 'some' of the freight was (because I helped set up freight that required an appointment be made for delivery time). Vast majority of freight bills do not necessarily have much in the way of detail (number of pallets, weight of each pallet or aggregate weight). Even the details that were on the bills were often not paid attention to by drivers and dock workers. We had an account that manufactured and shipped lightbulbs (fluorescent tubes). We moved the customers freight a couple of times a week, every week. Pallets were marked 'fragile' and 'do not topload'. Yet every 2-3 months or so someone would put 1k+ lbs of freight on top of one of their pallets. 4-6 feet of cardboard boxes containing glass tubes would reduce to 18 odd inches or so in a New York minute. (I knew because I also handled OSD - Overs, Shorts, and Damage). For the most part the concerns (if this much attention WAS paid) would be 'is this the right trailer?', 'will it fit?'/'can I MAKE it fit?', and 'what am I having for lunch?'. Now the terminal actually picking up from the MRE manufacturer would likely know who they are and what their freight tends to be. (Also where the factory is) As the freight crosses the country and moves from terminal to terminal there is a progressively lower chance for peeps to have any idea what is on the pallet(s) other than 'dry goods' or whatever short, vague description was put into the template for the bills of lading and exported out again and again for years. But yeah your scenario is another possibility that a GM can play with...
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10-08-2022, 05:32 PM | #20 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: How Much Food is in an Urban US Armory?
I realize that things like food in disasters, while the National Guard may be heavily involved in its distribution, would generally be administered by FEMA, not the military. I suspect the FEMA distribution center in Cumberland MD would be of interest.
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