In 2011 an official United States government document signed CONPLAN 8888-11
was declassified. The following is an excerpt from the document
quote; "This document is unclassified to ensure maximum utility during times of crisis
classified capabilities used to counter zombies will be addressed in appropriate orders and
annexes adapted during crisis action planning and until current operational conditions are restored,"
end quote. Yes you heard me correctly, it's a government plan to counter a zombie attack.
Why would the U.S. Government devote time money and resources to a zombie apocalypse?
Do they really believe such events is possible?
What are the contingency plans for protecting the population if any? Would they rely upon
science or also include the myths and folklore surrounding such a phenomenon?
Hello i'm Colin Heaton, former soldier, Marine Corps scout sniper, history professor, historian and
book author and we'll answer these questions and other issues on this segment of Forgotten History.
The first zombie tales date back to 17th century Haiti, where it was believed that
African slaves who committed suicide became zombies and weren't allowed to go to Heaven.
Given the fact that zombies were unlikely to complain they could work on the plantations
for all eternity. Governments around the world have always worried about and planned for
disasters whether man-made such as war famines or natural events such as earthquakes and hurricanes.
The government being a large bureaucracy has plans that would bring all of the national organizations
of state on board in case such an event occurred. The primary organization tasked with combating
the walking dead is the Department of Defense which controls the military military. Units would
be dispersed and strategically located around areas where such an outbreak would occur as a
containment procedure. Another organization would be the Department of Homeland Security
possibly making sure that zombies do not cross the now wide open southern border with Mexico.
Another and equally important department is the Centers for Disease Control who would be tasked
with identifying the cause of such an event and advising the president and DOD on methods
of handling the outbreak. Considering the great job they did with all of the Covid 19 variants
I see no problem there. Yet how would the CDC define the cause? One must assume that they would
have to perform a forensic laboratory examination of a zombie. The Pentagon decided to use this
scenario as a threat analysis and suppression methodology. In an unclassified document titled
CONOP 8888 officials from U.S. Strategic Command considered a worldwide pandemic that may create
the problem. It was considered a good template for dealing with all types of real-life large-scale
operations emergencies and catastrophes. CONPLAN 8888-11 laid out a 31-page strategy in three parts.
First create and uphold a defensive plan to protect the population from such a threat. Second
establish procedures to eradicate any threat of zombies regardless of the type. Third restore law
and order and the confidence of the people. However the only way such a plan could be executed would
be to implement martial law using the military including federalized national guard troops.
This would also be a matter of a possible constitutional conflict.
Which states or the federal agencies have jurisdiction over their areas of responsibility?
The metrosexual populations of San Francisco or New York may not have the same approach to zombies
as say the redneck in North Carolina or the cowboy in Texas. As implausible as this all seems
there was a case in 2006 in Petaluma, California where chickens were killed using carbon monoxide.
Not all of the hens died as some rose to the occasion wandering around like the walking
dead until they finally expired as well. This taxpayer-funded excursion started in 2009-2010
where military personnel participating in the joint operational planning and execution system
actively planned a mitigation and control method for such a zombie attack.
Part of their plan was to establish a clear distinction as to which types of zombies they
would be dealing with. Considering that medical schools do not teach their hopefuls on the merits
and efficacy of having the undead as patients this may have proved problematic. "A wide variety
of different zombies each brandishing their own lethal threats are possible to confront
and should be planned fo,r," according to the document. The government classified zombies into
several categories such as zombies created from bacteriological viral or pathogenic infection by
aerial dispersion. Then there are the zombies created by a mystic, unknown magical sources
wandering around to feed upon the living. There are also vegetarian zombies perhaps vegans who eat
plants and grains that pose no threat to humans due to their vegetarian nature making us all feel
much better. Or zombie life forms created after an organism is infected possibly with radiation
poisoning or a plague of some kind has yet to be determined. There is also the possibility
of an extraterrestrial zombie invasion which may present a different type of threat and alternate
response. The pentagon released their comments describing the necessity of such an exercise.
Navy Captain Pamela Kunze a spokeswoman for U.S. Strategic Command told CNN, "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.
This document is not a U.S. Strategic Command plan input." Well if that's the case they went to
great lengths to establish immediate response protocols and contingency plans to defend the
nation and the people from zombies. The planning extended to active duty and reservist recalls
should the zombies appear to include advanced parties, reconnaissance and threat assessment teams.
Every phase of the operation from conducting general zombie awareness training and recalling
all military personnel to their duty stations to deploying said reconnaissance teams to ascertain
the general safety of the environment to restoring civil authority after the zombie threat has
been neutralized are discussed. In dealing with these zombie threats the official report states
quote, "The only assumed way to effectively cause causalities to the zombie ranks by
tactical force is the concentration of all firepower to the head specifically the brain.
The only way to ensure a zombie is dead is to burn the zombie corpses," end quote. Although within
the document there is an inclusionary statement, quote; "Maintain emergency plans to employ nuclear
weapons within the continental United States to eradicate zombie hordes," end quote. Personally
i wonder why dropping white phosphorus napalm or using flamethrowers was not considered. The
contingency containment plans include protecting hospitals and key structures that could be overrun
by zombies to include using remote controlled drones and robots. The reason for the study was explained
in that there is no real expectation of a zombie invasion much had to do with creating a training
scenario that would not offend other nations. As stated in the released document quote,"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 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
can never be mistaken as a real plan," end quote. So whether we go to war with Russia, China or zombies
rest assured that every conceivable response has been thoroughly planned and we are in good hands.
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