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10 years 7 months ago #38428 by OleCowboy
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EXCLUSIVE
Exclusive: The Pentagon Has a Plan to Stop the Zombie Apocalypse. Seriously.
Everything you need to know about the U.S. military’s defense strategy to protect humanity from the walking dead.

BY GORDON LUBOLD MAY 13, 2014GORDON.LUBOLD@@GLUBOLD

The U.S. military has always been the one place in government with a plan, forever in preparation mode and ready to yank a blueprint off the shelf for almost any contingency. Need a response for a Russian nuclear missile launch? Check. Have to rescue a U.S. ambassador kidnapped by drug lords? Yup, check, got that covered. How about a detailed strategy for surviving a zombie apocalypse? As it turns out, check.
Incredibly, the Defense Department has a response if zombies attacked and the armed forces had to eradicate flesh-eating walkers in order to "preserve the sanctity of human life" among all the "non-zombie humans."
Buried on the military's secret computer network is an unclassified document, obtained by Foreign Policy, called "CONOP 8888." It's a zombie survival plan, a how-to guide for military planners trying to isolate the threat from a menu of the undead -- from chicken zombies to vegetarian zombies and even "evil magic zombies" -- and destroy them.
"This plan fulfills fictional contingency planning guidance tasking for U.S. Strategic Command to develop a comprehensive [plan] to undertake military operations to preserve 'non-zombie' humans from the threats posed by a zombie horde," CONOP 8888's plan summary reads. "Because zombies pose a threat to all non-zombie human life, [Strategic Command] will be prepared to preserve the sanctity of human life and conduct operations in support of any human population -- including traditional adversaries."
CONOP 8888, otherwise known as "Counter-Zombie Dominance" and dated April 30, 2011, is no laughing matter, and yet of course it is. As its authors note in the document's "disclaimer section," "this plan was not actually designed as a joke."
Military planners assigned to the U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska during 2009 and 2010 looked for a creative way to devise a planning document to protect citizens in the event of an attack of any kind. The officers used zombies as their muse. "Planners ... realized that training examples for plans must accommodate the political fallout that occurs if the general public mistakenly believes that a fictional training scenario is actually a real plan," the authors wrote, adding: "Rather than risk such an outcome by teaching our augmentees using the fictional 'Tunisia' or 'Nigeria' scenarios used at [Joint Combined Warfighting School], we elected to use a completely-impossible scenario that could never be mistaken for a real plan."
Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze, a spokeswoman for Strategic Command, acknowledged the document exists on a "secure Internet site" but took pains to explain that the zombie survival guide is only a creative endeavor for training purposes. "The document is identified as a training tool used in an in-house training exercise where students learn about the basic concepts of military plans and order development through a fictional training scenario," she wrote in an email. "This document is not a U.S. Strategic Command plan."
This isn't the first time zombies have been used to inspire trainers or the American public. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) built an entire public awareness campaign for emergency preparedness around zombies. "Get a kit, make a plan, be prepared," one CDC poster warns as a dead-eyed woman peaks over a blanket.
But the military appears to have come up with the idea first. And of course, should there be a zombie apocalypse, the military indeed has a plan.
CONOP 8888 is designed to "establish and maintain a vigilant defensive condition aimed at protecting humankind from zombies," according to the plan's purpose, and, "if necessary, conduct operations that will, if directed, eradicate zombie threats to human safety." Finally, the plan provides guidance to "aid civil authorities in maintaining law and order and restoring basic services during and after a zombie attack."
The "worst case threat scenario," according to the plan, suggests a rather dark situation: a zombie attack in which there would be high "transmissibility," lots of zombies eating lots of people, zombies infecting humans at a rapid rate, and little or no immunity and few effective countermeasures.


Read the rest: www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/1...he_zombie_apocalypse

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10 years 7 months ago #38429 by Siscowet
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They need a plan to protect us from IRS Zombies.

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10 years 7 months ago #38434 by jtallen83
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I would think there are other scenarios that could have used planners attention, Like say oh....what if Russia takes over a neighboring country using strong arm tactics? :whistle:
A solid plan there would seem to be more beneficial to the country than having the military worry about a domestic issue which they are not supposed to be involved in.......... :naughty:

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10 years 7 months ago #38439 by jtallen83
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Some more of the same;

www.gunsamerica.com/blog/armageddon-clas...ducation-fema-camps/

This is just planning practice, right????????

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10 years 7 months ago #38449 by OleCowboy
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I find this a waste of military assets. First there are no Zombies and about the closest thing to a flesh eating zombie is the federal govt (especially the IRS :thumbs: Sisco!)

Just another waste of taxpayers money...
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10 years 7 months ago #38452 by NightForce
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OleCowboy wrote: I find this a waste of military assets. First there are no Zombies and about the closest thing to a flesh eating zombie is the federal govt (especially the IRS :thumbs: Sisco!)

Just another waste of taxpayers money...


I have been making this point all along!!

It seems this government is coming up with more and more bizarre ways of wasting taxpayer money and now it's the zombie apocalypse and also space aliens.... I'd like to know why more isn't done to stop aliens coming into the country from Mexico and Cuba! :banghead: :banghead: :mad:

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10 years 7 months ago #38454 by jtallen83
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NightForce wrote:

OleCowboy wrote: I find this a waste of military assets. First there are no Zombies and about the closest thing to a flesh eating zombie is the federal govt (especially the IRS :thumbs: Sisco!)

Just another waste of taxpayers money...


I have been making this point all along!!

It seems this government is coming up with more and more bizarre ways of wasting taxpayer money and now it's the zombie apocalypse and also space aliens.... I'd like to know why more isn't done to stop aliens coming into the country from Mexico and Cuba! :banghead: :banghead: :mad:


I go along with shit canning the IRS and many more of the alphabet soup agencies but the military has no business working on missions inside the borders, that should be done by STATE controlled Guard units.
Immigration? I say go back 100 or so years before the progressives and big business had big pull, there were no limits. If you could get here you could become a citizen. If we did this we would not be creating a third class of citizens that have no stake in the community and can be exploited by big business. This exploitation leads to the left wanting all these "special" circumstances for a continued third class of citizens.
I' not saying these immigrants should benefit from all of our social programs, we shouldn't have these programs anyway...... :soapbox: stepping down.....

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