supply train
Military cargo caravan
A supply train is a convoy of vehicles, animals, or wagons carrying provisions, equipment, and ammunition to military forces in the field.
Historically, armies depended on mule-drawn wagons or pack animals; modern supply trains use trucks and sometimes rail.
The term extends to any organized system moving supplies to where they're needed: The hurricane relief effort required a massive supply train.
- military convoyArmed forces transport formation
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- wagonsPulled four-wheeled vehicles
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- army rationsPortable soldier food
logistics · mules · rations · ammunition · war materiel · quartermaster · caravan · baggage · oxen · military · haul · cargo · teamsters · depot · reinforcements · pack animals · march · columns
- historical warfaremusket, bayonet, cannon, flintlock, cavalry
- Civil War gearmusket, rifle, bayonet, canteen, knapsack
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- convoysconvoy, motorcade, military convoy, caravan, truck convoy
- ancient warfarephalanx, warriors, army, legion, battle
- Asian Warfaresamurai, ninja, katana, shogun, bushido
supply traincombat troops
strike force · shock troops · vanguard · battle group · spearhead
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