Zero Hedge – by Tyler DurdenThe Department of Treasury is spending $200,000 on survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation. As FreeBeacon reports, survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States and includes a solar blanket, food bar, water-purification tablets, and dust mask (among other things). The question, obviously, is just what do they know that the rest of us don’t?
The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation.
The emergency supplies would be for every employee at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which conducts on-site reviews of banks throughout the country. The survival kit includes everything from water purification tablets to solar blankets.
The government is willing to spend up to $200,000 on the kits, according to the solicitation released on Dec. 4.
The survival kits must come in a fanny-pack or backpack that can fit all of the items, including a 33-piece personal first aid kit with “decongestant tablets,” a variety of bandages, and medicines.
The kits must also include a “reusable solar blanket” 52 by 84 inches long, a 2,400-calorie food bar, “50 water purification tablets,” a “dust mask,” “one-size fits all poncho with hood,” a rechargeable lantern with built-in radio, and an “Air-Aid emergency mask” for protection against airborne viruses.
Survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States including Bank of America, American Express Bank, BMO Financial Corp., Capitol One Financial Corporation, Citigroup, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Wells Fargo.
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The agency has roughly 3,814 employees, each of which would receive a survival kit. The staff includes “bank examiners” who provide “sustained supervision” of major banks in the United States.
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It is not clear why the Treasury Department is ordering the kits.
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One can only imagine what the Treasury department is thinking will happen in the near-future… while it is indeed good to be prepared, the timing as domestic social unrest ramps up, the driver of the recovery is crashing, and the Fed has stepped away is ‘odd’ to say the least.
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Full OCC RFP below:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-10/why-us-treasury-quietly-ordering-surival-kits-us-bankers
Looks like I’m gonna stack some food!
What ever the reason, it doesn’t appear they expect it to last more than a day with the items they are requesting for the bag. At $52.00 it’s not survival kit, it’s an overnight bag.
yup.
or a ground score.
Hell they are more valuable than the money in the vault.
The bank is hedging.
is any of it bullet proof
FEMA.gov has been telling all to get an identical bag ready for the last several years!
Most schools ordered 3 day bags for students two years ago…
Why?
earth changes!!!!
Bio chemical alerts….
Dollar crash, government shut down, or take over…and god forbid war..
Nuke alerts…and the list goes on..
Got my stuff at amazon 2 years ago,
plus extra food, water, meds toiletries , and don’t forget TP!
The bags need a change of clothes, and personal items added to them in case one must leave their homes quickly..if you have a drive to work, keep it in your vehicle…in case you can not return home, make a plan on where and how to try to meet up with your family members…
Just please get ready…and pray we will never need it!
God speed
If anyone with a brain took the time to look at war footage and people don’t realized they’ll be screwed if anything like war happens, hospitals over run or workers there gone, those items won’t be enough. I’d suggest knowing doctors and nurses with the equipment and medicine available for the worst. You’re f*cked if you have to actually use that field surgical kit and no anesthesia, blood – platelet – plasma bags, salean solutions – flush kits, respirators, shock pain can kill a person alone.
How you gonna amputate and suture all those arteries need clamped with anesthesia. It’s time to get real people and thinking a condor med kit is going to save you!
“The question, obviously, is just what do they know that the rest of us don’t?”
The delivery date?
I agree with your reply. This is also something we’re to believe is going to be right on the door step if it’s not already there now.
Then, you’ll find out that nothing ever actually materialized. It was something referred to as a feeler. That is, something inserted to cause an reflex. The reflex is then monitored for effectiveness as either being a positive one or a negative one. The thing uncertain are the parameters of the metrics.
Not the kind of ‘transparency’ Obummer promised, but it works for us.