Zombies under attack in counterterrorism training program

Zombies may have a tougher time taking over the world after a counterterrorism training program scheduled next month in San Diego.

MilitaryTimes.com on Sunday reported that California-based security firm HALO Corp. will incorporate training to fight the undead during its Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 Counter-Terrorism Summit expected to draw 1,000 military personnel, law enforcement officials, medical experts and government workers to the 44-acre Paradise Point resort island in San Diego’s Mission Bay.


The company, founded by former special operations, national security and intelligence personnel, says its annual summit this year will include a realistic tactical training environment using “Hollywood magic” in live action demonstrations, realistic tactical training scenarios and classroom education.

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People dressed as zombies react to the camera during the V edition of the so-called 'Zombie Walk' in Mexico City, on Nov. 26, 2011.

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Immersive Hollywood sets will include a Middle Eastern village and a pirates’ haven, MilitaryTimes.com reported.

The more than 30 courses range from border and maritime security to cyber terrorism and modern warfare, HALO says in its summit promotional material.

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“The Zombie Apocalypse is very whimsical,” Brad Barker, HALO president, told MilitaryTimes.com,  referring to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campaign released last year.

Zombies who roam the island will harass the troops, first-aid teams and medical responders participating, Barker told MilitaryTimes.com.

This is an overview of the HALO Counter Terrorism Summit and the events that are taking place on HALO Island -- San Diego, CA, 29OCT-02NOV2012.

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Would someone please take the crack pipe away from the CDC and all other branches of govt WASTING our taxes? What if someone didn't get the memo and starts shooting fake zombies? LMAO!

Then again, we seem to have become a nation of zombies to allow the Constitution to be shredded to create disaster here as America needs a spankin' for the rest of the world to feel better about their crap countries. Well guess what, America is turning to crap while people sit silent or ignore all insanity because their team is playing!

    Reply#105 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:19 PM EDT

    It's too bad that you rejected my original enry, I submitted it and it appeared on a review I did of my posting, there was no profanity. just thoughts but you seemed to delete my views on the subject. It just renforces the thoughts going around that the media doesn't want to expose the government to any negative Ideas or thoughs what their underlying objectives might be for the people.

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    Reply#106 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:38 PM EDT

    What! no vampire training?

      Reply#107 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:50 PM EDT

      Looks to me like most people here just read MSN's misleading headline. Read the whole story! They are using VIRTUAL zombies as a way to train for unpredictable and totally terrifying situations so that police,etc. will have experience with the "worst case scenerio" before it is staring them in the face. Seems like a realistic use for unrealistic fantasy games. One commenter mentioned a guy on pcp who acted like a "zombie".

      Fact isn't too far from fiction sometimes

        Reply#108 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:03 PM EDT

        This is an ingenious example of "hiding in plain sight" for government training.

        They attend "zombie training", everyone see's it as a joke and even a waste of money. They get training and prepare........

        But instead of actual brain eating zombies, its crowds of shocked and scared citizens displaced after a natural or terrorist incident looking for food/shelter/water etc.

        Its upset citizens in urban area's massed and dazed from a horrific event and pushing for help from the government agencies who will have to control the streets and response assets.

        IF they trained in these scenarios people would be alerted and question it.

        But innocent "zombie control", keep laughing........

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        Reply#109 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:13 PM EDT

        "ZOMBIE" is code for 'citizen' in the situations you describe... FEMA and Homeland Security have already constructed around a hundred mass graves that will hold thousands (each) in preparation for just such an event... all it will take to trigger a massive response by the government that is precariously imminent and tragic is for the authoritarians to fail to control one single event, such as an OCCUPY demonstration, or any expression of general unrest at the polls or following an election... almost any trigger will do when the one percenters get scared enough.

        It is not a stupid democrat or dumb republican kind of thing - it's a preparatory authoritarian reaction to the potential failure of authority... and any attempt by the masses to resist imperious direction from 'above.'

          #109.1 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:40 PM EDT

          Last week Homeland Security took delivery on 2,500 armed & armored vehicled for us here in the united states. The factory here in Phoenix Az is cranking out plastic FEMA coffins like they are getting ready for a sale. Law enforcement training for massive "zombie" crowd control issues.

          Society is the most divided in over 100 years, economy is in the tank, our money is about to become worthless, what could go wrong???

          In 1938 Poland saw similiar buildup of their neighbor but they kept saying the same thing too.....Aw shucks that dont mean anything, they wont do anything......hehehehe

            #109.2 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:49 PM EDT

            Sounds similar to the after math of 9/11. The gov't must have intel of dirty bombs or tactical nuclear weapons in the hands of extremists, Muslim jihadists or right wingnuts in this country.

              #109.3 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:57 PM EDT
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              So they are now going to train people to battle Congress?

                Reply#110 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:23 PM EDT

                This is probably the real reason that Homeland Security and FEMA have already constructed mass graves waiting to be used.

                  Reply#111 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:27 PM EDT

                  Science Fiction is so much fun to believe in. So is Santa and the Easter Bunny. Really, if there were some kind of agent like PCP, the human body wouldn't be able to sustain life for very long. The cells in the organs would die and the host would die. Sure, PCP appears to make someone super human, but it only last for a short time unless the drug is administered continuously. By that time, the damage to the body has been done and a heart attack, or liver failure is bound to happen. The brain cells will have been toasted and death will follow shortly. It's simply impossible to keep that going without killing the host. This is garbage and a waste of our taxpayer money. I think the government is treating us like the zombies. We waste too much money and energy on war game fantasies instead of trying to better our society as a whole where we can sell our inventions and productive products to other countries and be the true leaders that we claim we are.

                    Reply#112 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:40 PM EDT

                    Glad to see our governement has all the extra bucks for luxury accomodations and ridiculous training.

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                    Reply#113 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:29 PM EDT

                    we work of salt, its in our blood, that and other stuff, like potassium.. change the molecular weight of the salts, and they still function in the cells, just the outcome is a lil different, add a dash of LcD, some Pcp and walla...

                    1 week of fun and horror for all to see and feel, good ladies and gents, i'll sit this one out.

                      Reply#114 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:13 PM EDT

                      Our tax payer dollars at work!!!! "THE FATE OF ALL MANKIND I SEE IS IN THE HANDS OF FOOLS"... King Crimson

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                      Reply#115 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:42 PM EDT

                      Has anybody ever thought too follow the money?

                      Would like to know who gets the profit for such B.S.

                        Reply#116 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:52 PM EDT

                        That's a waste of tax money. Fight something that exists. I can tell them how to kill zombies. I find a .38 round right above the bridge of then nose seems to hit the right spot in the brain. Now if you can't find a zombie use the Voodoo formula: take a crape la mere (puffer fish) and grind him up. dry it out and put it in a drink and give it to the prospective victim. He'll be paralyzed but fully awake. Instant Zombie. Silver bullets from the Lone Ranger works on the werewolf and a stake in the heart works on vampires. Anything else you need to know?

                          Reply#117 - Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:40 PM EDT

                          for the record, let me just say that i love zombie movies and games as much as any other weirdo.

                          but here are my thoughts that stem from one, burning question.

                          ooomg...i am gonna laugh SO HARD when this zombie training fails to protect anyone from the undead. seeing as how zombies are a figment of sum sci-fi creator's imagination and do not exist nooow, this "training" is essentially for those who strongly believe that zombies can sumday exist. BUT...even if they do one day roam the earth, how the hell can anyone prepare to fight them off then?? has anyone even considered the one obvious question that should be asked here, such as what if this stuff doesn't work on zombies? this training is based off of nothing, there are no zombies now so what facts are we dealing with here??...what a sad waste of money that could have obviously been wisely invested in other current needs of today.

                          can we just get back to making zombie games now?? :) sheesh.

                            Reply#118 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:13 AM EDT

                            They definitely know something big is coming, way too many preparedness drills to be coincidence, zombies hmm, looks more like vast amounts of people during either civil unrest, or needing help desperately, after a major disaster, whether its a false flag or not, I'm sure we'll find out soon enough.

                              Reply#119 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:30 AM EDT

                              REALLY ? More waste management from our Government. This is proof our country is being run by retarded idiots, it's ok for same sex marrige's and sex change's. I'm glad my life is almost over this world is not for normal people any more.

                                Reply#120 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:16 AM EDT

                                lol at everyone trying to politicize this. As a registered independent, when you look at the stereotypes of each party it is clear as to who identifies more with the zombies and who identifies with the survivors.

                                Zombies vs. Survivors

                                Zombies - often depicted with BLUE skin, out-number survivors, overwhelm survivors who either end up becoming a zombie themselves or fall to them based on sheer numbers, are usually in large groups often in urban areas, consume without producing

                                Survivors - often gun-loving REDnecks, often religious, found in greater numbers in rural areas, often stubbornly rely on themselves whether it's to their own detriment or success, little sympathy for the zombies or other survivors who aren't in as good of a position as themselves, often hoarded supplies (wealth) before the zombie apocalypse which allowed them to be in the position of survivor when it finally did happen

                                Make all the "brainless follower" jokes you want about the opposing party but when you look at the stereotypes of the parties and the stereotypes of the characters in zombie fiction it is plain to see that zombies = democrats, survivors = republicans. Independents? They are the smart ones who build a colony on the moon and rebuild society afterwards. :)

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                                Reply#121 - Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:06 PM EDT

                                And for the roll of the zombies, a few marijuana sucking druggies will be hired.

                                  Reply#122 - Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:53 PM EDT
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