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     Somewhere in Zone 1 of the United States is an unmanned facility, Depot Alpha. It is in the form of a long tunnel with six chambers opening into it at the entrance end, and one at the far end. Storage conditions are similar to those in a Team bolthole, but it doesn't have a monitor or radio. There is a lighting and power distribution system within the depot, however, powered by a Mark 1 fusion generator.

     It is not intended to produce a refugee camp, but rather to provide materials for construction of a 1000-person "support center" for Project services. For that purpose, it contains material to build 120 semi-permanent structures. It's expected that 20 people can put up the support center in two weeks, with a good site, water supply, favorable weather, and the vehicles and electrical power provided by the Project. Probably the Project leadership has a selection of likely sites already marked on some map somewhere ...

     The buildings are made from inflatable concrete-impregnated canvas, each stored in a waterproof bag on a wooden pallet box. They can be set up by two persons, take about a day to cure after being soaked in water, and can be covered by earth, snow, etc. for improved insulation and fragment-proofing; they are waterproof and fireproof and expected to last 10 years in use. The smaller building is (when stored) about 2.5 meters square and 1.1 meter high, weighing 1.9 tons; when erected it covers 25 square meters (suitable to house 10 persons). The larger building takes up 3 by 2.2 by 1.7 meters when stored, and weighs 3.1 tons; it covers 54 square meters when erected.

• chambers 1 through 3 each contain 32 small shelters; chamber 4 has 24 of the larger shelters; along with the accessory kits (lockable doors, stove jacks, vents, etc.) and four electric inflation fans per chamber

• chamber 5 contains housing equipment (cots, blankets, heaters, air conditioners, field telephones, light fixtures, some tents, toilets, etc.) for 1000 persons.

• chamber 6 has infrastructure equipment - kitchens, freezers, water and power distribution, sanitation, showers, fire extinguishers, sewage treatment, repair shop, two survival libraries in jeep trailers, and a selection of took kits and hand tools for putting the equipment to use. Thus hammers, sledges, hand drills, squares and levels, saws, wrenches, pliers, etc. ... probably enough to equip a dozen or more "workers".
  

• chamber 7 (at the far end of the tunnel) has medical equipment:  surgical equipment, x-ray machines, autoclaves, etc. to fit out a 200 bed MASH-type hospital
  

• The central "lobby" is a tunnel 9 meters wide and 200 meters long, with an open lane down the middle. It contains vehicles, parked nose-to-tail along both sides, with jackstands to keep their wheels off the floor during storage. The vehicles are all painted olive drab; the "regular" ones contain their usual team equipment, except they don't have computers, Laser Disk drives or Autonavs aboard. In rough order from the entrance towards the back they are:

• one V-150 APC

• one V-150 20mm

• one MW24C scoop loader, converted to fusion power
  

• two XR-311

• two Commando Scout
  

• four Commando Ranger

• one V-150 recovery and repair vehicle

• five Allis-Chalmers electric forklifts, capacity 4000 kg (NOT fusion powered, they are battery powered for use at the depot initially)
  

• six M818 five-ton semi-tractor trucks, converted to fusion power. They are each 7.3 meters long. These use the same 14x20 "5 ton truck" wheels and tires as the V-150, and share some other mechanical components. They don't have any "team equipment", but just basic items:  pioneer tools, tow cable, breaker bar, vehicle jack, snow chains, etc. They do carry a single spare tire. 

• twelve M870 lowbed semi-trailers, 40-ton capacity, 2.9 meters wide, 12.8 meters long. They use 11x20 tires, but don't have spares aboard. Eight of them have loads aboard:
  

• two Airscouts (one trailer)
  

• two Mark 2 fusion generators, ten Mark 1 fusion generators (two trailers)

• two fusion-powered Case model M4K articulated rough-terrain forklifts 4.4 tons each, top speed 32 kph (two trailers)

• two Volkswagen Type 2 Kombi vans, converted to battery power/electric motors (each van is loaded with conversion gear for five more Kombis); 150 wheel-and-tire sets (195R14), and twenty more conversion kits are loaded on pallets (one trailer).

• the conversion kit provides 240 MP "vehicle batteries" a 78 HP electric motor, a controller and some conversion hardware. The resulting vehicle has a 320 km range. The conversion package weighs about 180 kg each. Go find 30 more VW Kombi vans!

• 70 wooden utility poles, 13 meters long, 540 kg each (one trailer).
  

• fourteen 1.68 m diameter aluminum spools of electrical transmission wire (8 km per drum), and other transmission system components, for camp construction (one trailer)

• one M1098 5000 gallon semi-trailer water tanker, with hoses, a filtration system and an electric pump. 9.3 meters long; it has an 11x20 spare tire attached. Note that a very nice refugee camp will provide 20 liters (about 5 gallons) per person per day; a crummy camp, only 8 liters (2 gallons). Thus this tanker can provide one day's supply to the nominal "1000 person camp", but the Project expects to gather other tanker trailers, etc..
  

• four M971 van semi-trailers, 10.8 meters long (personnel door on right side, A/C or window openings on front end, water, electrical and telephone fittings inside for use as shop or lab van, two 11x20 spare tires carried underneath). They are pre-loaded with supplies:

• trailer 1:  ten sets of "shelter assistance" cache contents

• trailer 2:  about 60,000 LRP ration meals

• trailer 3:  five sets of "neighborhood defense" cache contents, two resupply cache contents, and one each of the universal, operations "A", operations "B", and operations "C" cache contents
  

• trailer 4:  720 TRW Low Maintenance Rifles, with 6 magazines each; 720 resistweave coveralls (various sizes, no markings or patches), and 260,000 rounds of 5.56mm ball ammunition
  

• three "demolition" dump semi-trailers, 10.4 meters long, with convertible doors (swing up or side-opening), 47 yard (36 cubic meters) capacity, 8mm thick steel body. They each carry one 11x20 spare tire.
  

• three are filled with thousands of empty sandbags and four spare 11x20 tires on wheels

• one has thirty-two 14.5x20 Commando Special runflat tire and wheel sets, for M818 tractors and Commando vehicles

     In addition, three holes were dug in the hillsides within a kilometer or so, filled with bulk construction materials, and then covered over. They are each about 2000 cubic meters, and contain:

• gravel

• sand
  

• aggregate

     As an item of note, there are 36 fusion generators in the depot (including the vehicles and the depot's own generator).