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Weekend Survival Training
One often feels the need to share their wisdom and knowledge with those they care about or those that they believe will be the most receptive. One group that many look forward to ask a possible training ground against the undead that offers promise in their proficiency with off-the-land survival techniques, marksmanship, and pyromania, is the Boy Scouts. I am the leader of a Boy Scout troop from the area around LA and I have also volunteered my services to organize and run a zombie survival weekend campout. When considering the best way to go about planning such an event, I realized that I had the perfect advisers just a dial-tone away. Ideas I had brain stormed include, building a defensible fort in a short amount of time, edible plant semenars, and a water balloon fight from the fort switching out people for survivors(just because it sounded fun), what do you think I should include, or how do you think I could flesh out my ideas?
Tebben:
How about a class on Bug Out Bags? Emphasize its usefulness in non-zombie situations as well. Potentially boring, but a good time filler between events. Also, for one meal, you could get MREs, or similar survival rations. I like the zombie tag idea below, for any age group.
What is the age range/group size for the event? More details my help get some ideas..
DustinEchos104: Thank you for the suggestions Tebben, allowed to participate are scouts from the ages of 11 to 18 but usually clustering around 13 or 14 with a few of the older guys in the 16-17 bracket along. I am hoping for a decent turn out, depending on the location and I can secure, I'd like to see 20 guys along to do this, but more realisitically, between 10 and 17 are our averages.
starwars zombie:
if you need games and stuff go here.
Tebben:
How about a class on Bug Out Bags? Emphasize its usefulness in non-zombie situations as well. Potentially boring, but a good time filler between events. Also, for one meal, you could get MREs, or similar survival rations. I like the zombie tag idea below, for any age group.
What is the age range/group size for the event? More details my help get some ideas..
DustinEchos104: Thank you for the suggestions Tebben, allowed to participate are scouts from the ages of 11 to 18 but usually clustering around 13 or 14 with a few of the older guys in the 16-17 bracket along. I am hoping for a decent turn out, depending on the location and I can secure, I'd like to see 20 guys along to do this, but more realisitically, between 10 and 17 are our averages.
starwars zombie:
if you need games and stuff go here.
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| Thrawn5 | Weekend Survival Training? check | 0 | Jun 3 2008, 10:27 PM EDT by Thrawn5 | |
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Thread started: Jun 3 2008, 10:27 PM EDT
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This is a very good idea, unfortunately, a good amount of ideas that you could cover are looked down upon being talked about in Boy Scouts.
Here are some ideas, Target practice (if you are anywhere near a range. If you are allowed, have the boys stand up when shooting, chances are they will only be using 22s anyway). First aid (a must for almost any Boy Scout outing), and maybe some higher first aid if you have some older boys who know the basics really well. The fort idea is really good, just remember to tell them not to get to attached to their fort, it is probably going to end up being torn down. You might also try this with rage zombies (have the boys be able to go at normal speeds instead of shambling along). Zombie tag, a classic. DaveBall's Idea about a hike is good as long as you can get the boys to stay in groups and no one gets lost, maybe have a good recon of the area with the boys (all of them) before starting the game. Zombie trivia, test the boys knowledge of zombies! Give them question after question on zombies, see who has prepared enough to survive (do this at the end of the campout). Various zombie foods (excuse some of the names, they might not be appropriate for Scouts, I am not sure what your standards are). Blood (dark grape juice), Intestines (Cannoli or some sort of pasta), half-made napalm (s'mores). I am sure you could come up with many more (or if you want a HUGE variety, just ask your boys to come up with zombie meal plans). Have a zombie burning contest, have the boys form teams and then give them a wet paper bag to burn. fill the bag with some damp rope or something (after all, you wouldn't really be able to get a zed to burn just by putting it into a campfire, it would take a while). Have them come up with a survival plan, go through the plans and give ideas to the boys (possibly work in the "Troop Mobilization plan?). Good luck with the weekend! -Thrawn5 |
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| DaveBall | Weekend Survival Training | 1 | Jun 3 2008, 10:00 PM EDT by Thrawn5 | |
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Thread started: Jun 2 2008, 7:50 PM EDT
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How about Zombie tag. A Zombie hike ( a hike and have some of the older kids go ahead and hide in 2 or 3 places on the trail and come after the others. It sound like fun to me.
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