For today's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot award, we recognize the Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Emergency Management Agency. As the background situation for their emergency preparedness exercise, they envisioned a mass-shooting by a teenage gun nut who was opposed to a recent influx of immigrants. Police and other emergency workers would then react to the situation. Some people, including me, find this backstory insulting.
Officials maintain that the scenario is immaterial to the exercise, and was only thrown into the plan so that federal funding could be acquired for it:
In order to assist the PCEMA in finding plausible, real-world, situations for their exercises, I submit the following ideas:
All of these scenarios would fit the bill, but the last one is probably the best generic "Get the boys, there's been a shooting at the school" scenario to train and test your emergency response capabilities. Speaking for us Caucasian gun-toting anti-illegal immigration males, the "Crazy White Boy With A Gun And A Grudge" premise is wearing a bit thin.
Officials maintain that the scenario is immaterial to the exercise, and was only thrown into the plan so that federal funding could be acquired for it:
This scenario and supporting suspect profiles are only in the plan in order to define this FICTITIOUS INCIDENT as a domestic terrorism event and to provide simulated intelligence that responding law enforcement would want and/or eventually request during the event,” Reed wrote. “There will be NO role-playing of racist protests, slander or hate crimes during the actual exercise … the only thing being exercised is the RESPONSE to a shooting, we are not exercising events leading up to the shooting.
In order to assist the PCEMA in finding plausible, real-world, situations for their exercises, I submit the following ideas:
- A multi-national drug gang shoots up a school in order to cow a recent influx of immigrants from their target nations.
- Two young men's extra-curricular groups begin shooting at each other at a community gathering in response to recent disputes over drug territory
- An ethnically and religiously motivated group of terrorists take over a school and begin to execute hostages when their spiritual leader is arrested and imprisoned.
- A shooter or shooters of unknown motivation attacks a school and is loose on the premises.
All of these scenarios would fit the bill, but the last one is probably the best generic "Get the boys, there's been a shooting at the school" scenario to train and test your emergency response capabilities. Speaking for us Caucasian gun-toting anti-illegal immigration males, the "Crazy White Boy With A Gun And A Grudge" premise is wearing a bit thin.
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