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Someone threatened to “shoot up” and kill everyone at my wife’s office
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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 3782406" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>This goes back to the PERSEC baseline: "Be polite. Be Professional. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet."</p><p></p><p>The base security has no duty to protect any one individual or group of individuals on base. They just can't even if they wanted to. So even though it's been forbidden to carry a gun on a federal installation since forever ago, that doesn't mean you just give up. Consider this threat and resultant poor response by the MP's as an exercise. They saw what worked and more importantly, what didn't. </p><p></p><p>Armed with that information, does OP's wife know the right questions to ask of management in that specific facility? Until the cavalry shows up and neutralizes the threat, what's the plan? What are the emergency evac routes? Where are the hardened points in the building that can be secured? Where are the concealment areas that can be secured and if necessary, defended? In those locations, what implements and equipment are available that can be EFFECTIVELY utilized as improvised weapons? Have employees drilled to work as teams against threats? Force multiplication is vastly important. Even a combat ineffective staffer can be used as a distraction.</p><p></p><p>Are Emergency 1st Aid Kits maintained and up to date? If so, do they provide adequate coverage for piercing injuries such as bullet wounds? Being a military installation, are there IFAK's available? Even expired ones handed down once they're rotated out of front line service are better than none at all. Is your individual CPR/Emergency 1st Aid training up to date? </p><p></p><p>Communications: Always assume no comms. Hard lines can be cut, cell towers can be overloaded with traffic, emergency dispatch will be overloaded and the only reason to call them are if you need emergency medical service, or you have information that should be relayed to the cavalry to vector them directly to the threat. NEVER call dispatch or 911 to get information. They don't have time to give you a report, they're busy vectoring resources to the crisis scene. Want information? Are you signed up for text alerts? Do you know what local sources of information you can tune into (radio, internet, app) to obtain information that is NOT from the emergency services providers coming to the rescue? Don't forget to silence your phone immediately, so as to not give away your location. </p><p></p><p>Once you've escaped and/or the threat is neutralized, do you know where the primary, secondary and tertiary rally points are? And that's if they even exist, and hopefully they're in opposite directions to account for the 1st or 2nd RP's being compromised by the threat. Do you know who/where to call for accountability? </p><p></p><p>If you're considered critical personnel/management, do you know where to go if you're off site and need to help account for personnel who may have been compromised by the threat? Because I can guarantee you aren't getting anywhere the scene, or possibly even on the facility at all for hours, possibly even days. Do you have MOU's/MOA's/Mutual Aid Agreements with other facilities to resume critical operations in the interim? </p><p></p><p>These are the things you have to know or learn at emergency exercises or after an incident occurs. We literally just had an Active Shooter Tabletop Exercise at my airport on Wednesday. The most important part of exercises like these aren't the exercise itself, it's the post exercise/incident "hot wash". That's where you plan and implement improvements to your response, then ensure lessons learned aren't forgotten year over year. That's what we were doing this morning after ours. </p><p></p><p>It's amazing how much personnel turnover can happen in a year's time, and important emergency information isn't maintained or passed along to new personnel. Great organizations have policies and procedures in place to ensure continuity of operations in the face of all types of threats, manmade and natural. But unless you're involved in the planning and exercise part of your operation, you shouldn't assume your organization is staying on top of emergency response plans. </p><p></p><p>Take responsibility for your own safety and security. If you do that, then maybe you're one less victim they have to triage and one more pair of hands available to help pick up the pieces and move forward. Just some food for thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 3782406, member: 1132"] This goes back to the PERSEC baseline: "Be polite. Be Professional. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet." The base security has no duty to protect any one individual or group of individuals on base. They just can't even if they wanted to. So even though it's been forbidden to carry a gun on a federal installation since forever ago, that doesn't mean you just give up. Consider this threat and resultant poor response by the MP's as an exercise. They saw what worked and more importantly, what didn't. Armed with that information, does OP's wife know the right questions to ask of management in that specific facility? Until the cavalry shows up and neutralizes the threat, what's the plan? What are the emergency evac routes? Where are the hardened points in the building that can be secured? Where are the concealment areas that can be secured and if necessary, defended? In those locations, what implements and equipment are available that can be EFFECTIVELY utilized as improvised weapons? Have employees drilled to work as teams against threats? Force multiplication is vastly important. Even a combat ineffective staffer can be used as a distraction. Are Emergency 1st Aid Kits maintained and up to date? If so, do they provide adequate coverage for piercing injuries such as bullet wounds? Being a military installation, are there IFAK's available? Even expired ones handed down once they're rotated out of front line service are better than none at all. Is your individual CPR/Emergency 1st Aid training up to date? Communications: Always assume no comms. Hard lines can be cut, cell towers can be overloaded with traffic, emergency dispatch will be overloaded and the only reason to call them are if you need emergency medical service, or you have information that should be relayed to the cavalry to vector them directly to the threat. NEVER call dispatch or 911 to get information. They don't have time to give you a report, they're busy vectoring resources to the crisis scene. Want information? Are you signed up for text alerts? Do you know what local sources of information you can tune into (radio, internet, app) to obtain information that is NOT from the emergency services providers coming to the rescue? Don't forget to silence your phone immediately, so as to not give away your location. Once you've escaped and/or the threat is neutralized, do you know where the primary, secondary and tertiary rally points are? And that's if they even exist, and hopefully they're in opposite directions to account for the 1st or 2nd RP's being compromised by the threat. Do you know who/where to call for accountability? If you're considered critical personnel/management, do you know where to go if you're off site and need to help account for personnel who may have been compromised by the threat? Because I can guarantee you aren't getting anywhere the scene, or possibly even on the facility at all for hours, possibly even days. Do you have MOU's/MOA's/Mutual Aid Agreements with other facilities to resume critical operations in the interim? These are the things you have to know or learn at emergency exercises or after an incident occurs. We literally just had an Active Shooter Tabletop Exercise at my airport on Wednesday. The most important part of exercises like these aren't the exercise itself, it's the post exercise/incident "hot wash". That's where you plan and implement improvements to your response, then ensure lessons learned aren't forgotten year over year. That's what we were doing this morning after ours. It's amazing how much personnel turnover can happen in a year's time, and important emergency information isn't maintained or passed along to new personnel. Great organizations have policies and procedures in place to ensure continuity of operations in the face of all types of threats, manmade and natural. But unless you're involved in the planning and exercise part of your operation, you shouldn't assume your organization is staying on top of emergency response plans. Take responsibility for your own safety and security. If you do that, then maybe you're one less victim they have to triage and one more pair of hands available to help pick up the pieces and move forward. Just some food for thought. [/QUOTE]
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