Just in case something goes really, really wrong between now and tomorrow night, I thought it was prudent to direct everyone to Field Manual (FM) 999-3: Counter Zombie Operations at the Fireteam Level*.
Stay alert! Stay alive! And if necessary: Strike Hard!
FM 999-3 Counter-Zombie Operations at the Fireteam Level
* I actually used this in the US Army’s first Warfighting Exercise in 2012. I was temporarily assigned control (TACON) as the Cultural Advisor for III Corps throughout 2012 and was on site as the Corps’ cultural advisor for the exercise. As the exercise was winding down some wise guy in exercise control (EXCON) decided to throw a massive solar flare generated EMP that wiped out all unshielded electronics into the scenario (added for clarity). Deciding rather to be safe then sorry, as I’d seen Night of the Comet, I immediately stepped out of the targeting synch meeting, went down the hall to my office, printed out a copy of FM 999-3, and brought it back to the meeting.
Zinsky
Why do military types think acronyms are so cool? Do they think it makes them sound smarter or something? Or do they think it helps conceal the fact that all they are about is slaughtering other human beings, in direct contradiction of Jesus’s admonition to “love each other as I have loved you”?
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Don’t forget the classic CDC blog post on how to prepare for the zombie apocalypse:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/
Corner Stone
I…uhhh…what?
scav
So now I figure out why all y’all were watching that last debate — arms-length real-world training. I am so toast.
Anoniminous
@Corner Stone:
Believe It or Not:
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Zinsky:
Every large organization loves acronyms. The Giant Evil Corporation I work for has a million of them.
Also, too, lighten up, Francis.
redshirt
A zombie uprising seems like it would be fun, I’m all for it.
Corner Stone
Lennie Brisco was the OG Horatio Caine, but without the sunglasses.
Discuss.
Corner Stone
@Anoniminous: I am familiar with the Carrington event, tyvm. We had tea and biscuits and it was quite a delightful spectacle.
NotMax
Friend used to work for Terminix
Gave him one of these, which he then installed conspicuously on the top of the truck’s dashboard.
Corner Stone
Zombie events, whether the speedy kind or walker type will never end well for the proto-survivors. There’s just no scenario that leads to long term survival.
Chyron HR
@Zinsky:
Who gives a shit?
jl
And you have noting for vampire, werewolf, Frankenstein monster, or giant radioactive merman attacks?
See what destruction to our military readiness Democratic misrule has wrought.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
Don’t insult Briscoe by even bringing up that preening douchebag Caine in the same sentence.
Briscoe’s best (most compatible) partner? I’m torn.
redshirt
What about vampires that spread like zombies and start taking over parts of the world?
jl
@Chyron HR:
” love each other as I have loved you ”
Not sure what that is about.
Is that they LEOAIHLY doctrine? I saw a powerpoint on that once.
Peale
@Corner Stone: best course I suppose is to succumb at the time, place, and manner of one’s choosing. I will quit my job and go fishing until they find me.
NotMax
@jl
From the “Nullzilla” episode of ReBoot:
Bob: You’re prepared for a giant monster made entirely of nulls stomping around Mainframe?
Phong: That is correct.
Bob: How do you plan for that?
Phong: Uh, lucky guess?.
Steeplejack (phone)
Night of the Comet is a good movie. It doesn’t show up very often.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack (phone):
Crime scene tech: “Matching pair of free weights”
Briscoe: {puts on bifocals} “More like… dead weights”
YEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack (phone):
Has to be Ed Green, right?
At that time Logan was already foreshadowing his end of run. Rey Curtis was an uncompromising stick up the ass prick, unless he was getting his.
Det Green was a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty. Perfect for OG Briscoe’s style of “bend but don’t break” detecting.
Gravenstone
@Steeplejack (phone): Night of the Comet was a much appreciated classic among my friends and I.
“But daddy would’ve gotten us Uzis.”
NotMax
@NotMax
Much better quality video of that ReBoot episode, if anyone might be interested.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: an electromagnetic pulse caused by a massive solar flare.
Adam L Silverman
@jl: Do you have a need to know about these things? if not – maybe we do, maybe we don’t…
Omnes Omnibus
I think the M-203 would be effective with the shot canisters rather than grenades. That is a wonderful parody of an army FM though.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Rendered Dr. Miguelito Loveless’ array of orbiting satellites of doom deader than a nit.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: Adam, sometimes I love you.
Omnes Omnibus
@jl: If it’s not in the FM 6 series collection collection or the Ranger Handbook, it is marginalia.
Corner Stone
Rousey v Zingano! Let’s do this, bitc….um, peeps!
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
Yeah, I think it had to be Green.
I’ve seen Law and Order only in reruns, so my time line is totally screwed up.
divF
@Corner Stone: Re: Briscoe and Green. I also like the fact that Orbach and Martin both got their starts in Broadway musicals. Very New York.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: They did a really good job on it.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: I’m confused now. This is not uncommon.
22over7
@redshirt: In that movie, they consume all available resources and die out. Predator/prey scenario.
PIGL
@Chyron HR: that’s uncalled for.
Keith P.
Christ, I wish people would stop talking about zombies as if they are a real phenomenon.
Corner Stone
@Keith P.:
Braaaaaiiinnnsss…brrraaiiins…*knock knuckles on Homer’s head*…{walks away}…brrraaaiiiinnnssss
BruceFromOhio
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Awesome!!!
ruemara
To be fair, I used raid planning in WOW to pass my incident management final for FEMA. Hey, there could be a dragon.
Soonergrunt
We use zombies in emergency management training and planning. It frees the mind from restrictions. We don’t know what zombies would be capable of if they existed, but if you worry about floods, you plan for floods, and if you worry about earthquakes, you plan for earthquakes, and you neglect planning for other threats. With zombies, you have to plan for several eventualities, and allocate your limited resources for all of them.
Obviously we don’t actually plan for zombies, but by starting from a point of dealing with the unknown we don’t lock our assumptions (that may be wrong or inadequate) into the mix from the beginning.
Adam L Silverman
@Soonergrunt: I developed the concept of operations for leveraging what we would now call Engagement (then socio-cultural research, analysis, and mapping) in support of and to better enable emergency management and disaster response. If you want/need anything on this, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help.