What is Supply depot?
[[File:Subic Bay Supply Depot.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Former US supply depot at [[Subic Bay]]}}]] A '''Supply depot''' is a type of [[Military base|military installation]] used to store [[military]] [[wikt:supply|supplies]]. They are usually near the [[front lines]] so they can provide supplies to their military units. Supply depots store and [[wikt:distribute|distribute]] the [[wikt:equipment|equipment]] and supplies a military needs to [[wikt:operate|operate]].<ref>United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps, ''Manual for the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army'' (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917), p. 579</ref> These are often kept in [[building]]s called [[warehouse]]s.<ref>Damon Schechter, ''Delivering the Goods: The Art of Managing Your Supply Chain'' (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002), p. 84</ref> Modern supply depots do not typically store [[ammunition]]. Because of the dangers of storing live ammunition and [[Explosive material|explosives]] they are kept separate in an [[ammunition dump]].<ref>''The International Military Digest Annual, Volume 4'', ed. Edwin Roy Stuart (New York, NY: Cumulative Digest Corp., 1916), p. 298</ref> Supply depots are usually run by a [[logistics officer]]. He or she is responsible for getting supplies to units who need them when they need them. Supply depots are often the [[wikt:target|target]]s of enemy [[raid]]s. By destroying an enemy's supplies, it hurts their ability to fight. == References == {{reflist}} {{military-stub}} [[Category:Military buildings and structures]]