Does the Pentagon really have a Zombie Apocalypse emergency plan?

[LongTomH]

I Fucking Love Science thinks so! It seems someone in the 5-sided squirrel cage may actually have a sense of humor:

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CONOP 8888, as the document is known, is dated April 30, 2011, not 29 days earlier (or 28 days later for that matter). The authors are keen to assure us the document is not a joke, but nor is it entirely serious, saying, “The hyperbole involved in writing a 'zombie survival plan' actually provided a very useful and effective training tool.”

"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."

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Pentagon planners are rather more creative than Hollywood scriptwriters, it seems, with the the subtypes of zombies they are prepared for including vegetarians, “zombie life forms originating from any cause but pose no direct threat to humans because they only eat plant life”. Symbiant-Induced Zombies by are also on the list, as are evil magic zombies, as opposed presumably to zombies produced through good magic and zombies from space.

Read more: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pentagon-has-zombie-apocalypse-emergency-plan

[jmowreader]

1. Y'all haven't lived until you've gone through Defense Logistics Agency spec sheets

Today's example: MIL-C-44244A, better known as the Army's 25-page recipe for canned chili.

[Munificence]

2. That's

freakin' hilarious. But then again I may be stoned. haha, "25-page recipe for canned chili".


Seems I have the munchies now. I blame you. This aggression will not be tolerated man.

[csziggy]

3. Probably - the CDC has a zombie preparedness page

That includes lesson plans for schools and posters!

http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm

[Recursion]

4. It makes a lot of sense

It's a way to model responses to a wide range emergencies without picking any particular punching bag.

[Ex Lurker]

5. They have plans forevery imaginable contingency

including war with close allies like Canada and Britain. So probably.