"That's a nice one, but anyone can hit a zombie with a knife if they're agile enough and the ZOPFOR roleplayer has good "rigor mortis" =)

Here's an idea to make this into a constructive post.
You could sound a siren in your base, followed by a secondary siren with a different sound (this is a drill) when your team is eating lunch or something. Then have 10 ZOPFOR roleplayers enter and try to attack the base. The touch with the head would be an infection. The players would have to get up, locate a firearm or other weapon, and take down the zombie. Firearms should be kept on SAFE; the way to 'kill' a 'zombie' would be to aim at their head (keeping your finger off the trigger) and saying, "Bang!" Time them and see how well they did. Then step in and tell the players how good they did. Then suprise everyone with some chocolate that night ^_^"

"Absolutely. We used to do "mugger drills" all the time in Krav Maga, where the student is approached and "surrounded" by two or more attackers. The purpose of the drill is twofold: 1) get to the outside, thus preventing them from surrounding you (and neutralizing the far-side attacker), and 2) doing it in a manner which leaves an open escape route.

1 is the easy part, 2 can be a b!tch. But it's good training, and the more variety and unexpected things you toss in there, the more effective the training will be in order to condition your mind to "think on your feet."

Good luck, and good training. "

"A weapons training drill seems appropriate.
People involved: Someone simulating a zombie (for a challenge try multiple people) ; Person being trained ( i don't remember the lingo sorry)
For the purpose of an example lets try a close range weapon, say a knife.
The "zombie" will try to "bite" the trainee ( a simple touch of the head to any body part will suffice) While the trainee tries to stab the zombie(s) with a rubber knife.
Another example would be multiple ZOPFORS and say a screwdriver vs 3 ZOPFORS, it would be good training; also trying not to be surrounded is useful."