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Team Members

     Background checks began in 1983, contact by the Project recruiters was in the fall of 1984, and actual induction (after the background checks) was in December of 1984. Training began in January of 1985 (in cohort 33), and ended in September. The team was frozen and placed in their cryo-berths in October of 1985 (about 2 years before R-36).

     The team has a V-150 armored recovery vehicle.

Standing Orders

     They expect to be awakened a very few years after the War.  

     The goal of the Project is the continued survival of human civilization after the War. The standing orders for every team are to:

• assist the population in recovering in any way you can

• reunite with the rest of the Morrow Project

• survive!

     If they don't get any immediate specific instructions otherwise, all teams are expected to observe, record, evaluate and report on conditions in their assigned area -- locations of nuclear attacks, and the resulting damage, the environment (especially fallout and radioactive contamination), remaining population, power generation and industry, transportation, communications, government, civil rights and public safety, etc.

     The team members know that Prime Base is to be "awake" throughout the Atomic War and afterwards.

     The team is intended to support agriculture in the "Southern Rivers" and Atlantic coastal plain regions of Georgia (the SW corner of the state). The team leader knows there are at least two Recon teams in Zone 9 -- one for the Atlantic coast, and one for the Gulf coast (R-36, in fact).

Facilities

     For security purposes, they only know the location of their own bolthole, of their team's six "agricultural" supply caches, and four "regular" supply caches. The Team's bolthole is located at 31°20'02.3"N, 83°44'49.2"W, between Moultrie and Tifton, GA. The agricultural caches are all within 30 kilometers of the bolthole, in various low hill-ish areas   The "regular" cache numbers and locations are:

• AL-04:  near Old Forest, Alabama.
  

• SC-03:  near Neeses, South Carolina.
  

• TX-12:  near Bakersfield, Texas.
  

• OH-04:  near Fairfax, Ohio.
  

     Each "regular" cache is shared with at least one other Recon team; MARS teams, Science teams, depot staff, and of course Prime Base also know some or all of the cache locations. 

Radio Frequencies

The team is assigned ten FM voice communication frequencies:

• channel 1:  30.3 MHz - Zone 9 common tactical channel
  

• channel 2: 32.5 MHz - team primary channel
  

• channel 3: 34.1 MHz
  

• channel 4:  36.5 MHz

• channel 5:  38.7 MHz

• channel 6:  33.0 MHz - also MARS general
  

• channel 7:  40.4 MHz
  

• channel 8:  40.6 MHz

• channel 9:  44.4 MHz

• channel 10:  46.2 MHz

A couple of other important FM channels:

• 34.0 MHz - Recon common channel
  

• 31.0 MHz - Science common channel
  

     Note that changing the ten frequencies on their PRC-68 radios will require a successful Electronics skill roll if your skill is less than 40%; a failed roll (especially a fumbled roll) will result in channels not being usable. The PRC-70 vehicle/backpack radio is much more flexible; the HF band covers a lot of aircraft and marine channels, though it requires a long antenna to be really useful. 

     HF channels to watch:

• 2.182 MHz:  international distress and emergency

• 7.0 to 7.3 MHz:  the "long range" channels for the Project (one for each Zone, plus a couple of general purpose channels)
  

• 14.06 MHz:  a common amateur radio channel

• 26.617 MHz:  Civil Air Patrol common channel
  

• 26.96 to 27.41 MHz:  CB radios on 40 channels. CB channel 11 (general calls) is 27.085 MHz; channel 9 (emergencies) is 27.065 MHz
  

• 27.87, 27.92, 27.97 MHz:  US Navy-MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System)