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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:26 PM
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A Failure of Imagination?
Edited on Wed Jul-28-04 08:32 PM by Must_B_Free




http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html

"
Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000
...
Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the "plane crash" was a simulated one.

The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to Oct. 24-26 in the Office of the Secretaries of Defense conference room"
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:28 PM
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1. A failure to provide information
Please clue us in...what are we looking at?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:32 PM
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2. DOD drill/simulation (before 9-11-01) of what would happen if a jet
hit a large, five sided building in the District of Columbia.

But nobody had a inkling terrorists might use jets as flying bombs to take out strategic buildings in the US. :eyes:
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James T. Kirk Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:43 PM
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3. They should have done something THE NEXT DAY!
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 10:12 PM
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4. kick
for those with their heads still in the sand
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 11:08 AM
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5. kick
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