"Zombie Invasion" training planned for troops on Halloween - conservative news
First it was the Center for Disease Control’s campaign for zombie preparedness. Then the Department of Homeland Security got in on the action, warning of a coming zombie apocalypse as a way to get the public planning for emergencies.
Now, the AP reports, a defense contractor in California has a counter-terrorism exercise in the works that will pit Navy special operators, Marines, soldiers, and civilian emergency responders against the un-dead enemies–conveniently timed to take place on Halloween.
Executed by the security firm Halo Corp., the zombie event is billed as a serious training exercise that uses fictional monsters as a way to practice speedy response to the kind of “asymmetrical warfare” that has been the standard in the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan.
‘Zombie Invasion’ training planned for troops on Halloween
First it was the Center for Disease Control’s campaign for zombie preparedness. Then the Department of Homeland Security got in on the action, warning of a coming zombie apocalypse as a way to get the public planning for emergencies.
Now, the AP reports, a defense contractor in California has a counter-terrorism exercise in the works that will pit Navy special operators, Marines, soldiers, and civilian emergency responders against the un-dead enemies–conveniently timed to take place on Halloween.
Executed by the security firm Halo Corp., the zombie event is billed as a serious training exercise that uses fictional monsters as a way to practice speedy response to the kind of “asymmetrical warfare” that has been the standard in the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan.
