Military to train to fight Zombies?

Military training for zombie war may be new "news" to some but it is two years old!

September 19, 2012

Military to train to fight Zombies?

Zombies a training tool at counterterror event

Army Times

By Gidget Fuentes

Staff writer

Posted : Wednesday Sep 19, 2012

SAN DIEGO — Forget the H1N1 pandemic. Could a future crisis arise from an outbreak of viruses that destroy brain cells and render people violently catatonic, like zombies?

JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES
Know how to stop the undead? An October exercise in California will pit military trainees against a horde of role-players exhibiting zombielike behavior. Here, participants in a “zombie walk” in Sweden show their stuff.

The far-fetched scenario of a government grappling a zombielike threat has captured the attention and imagination of Brad Barker, president of the security firm HALO Corp.

Next month, his outfit will incorporate — no kidding — zombies into a disaster-crisis scenario at the company’s annual counterterrorism summit in San Diego, a five-day event providing hands-on training, realistic demonstrations, lectures and classes geared to more than 1,000 military personnel, law enforcement officials, medical experts, and state and federal government workers.