Executive Summary
With the zombie apocalypse, came initiatives to providing ongoing solutions and safety measures for survivors at Blue Mountain, a former summer camp. In the middle of the year, Rob Carlson, a former dentist and mountain climber, and Carol Montega, the US Army’s first and only female Green Beret at the time of the apocalypse, assessed the situation of traveling to New York state’s CDC in July to find a cure for zombie-ism by co-teaching a proposed zombie evasion training program, especially for the 10 out of 50 scientist who had no training and would be traveling with Carol Montega.
This training class had two goals:
1. Scientist would know how to hunt, build a fire, and to find edible plants to eat.
2. Generally survive in the wilderness
With the nature of this training program that should begin on June15th, certain stipulation have to occur such as trainees must arrive with their own rifles and camping equipment, and lastly, all trainees must have undergone a 10-day quarantine to ensure they have not been infected with the zombie virus.
However, the brief study finds the prospects of the training program in its current state are not positive. The major areas of flaw require further investigation and remedial action by the co-trainers. Recommendations include:
• Discussing with co-trainers about why 3 of 10 scientists haven’t been quarantined

• Improving/increasing scientists learning how build fire without matches and surviving in general
• Increasing the usage of rifles of scientist who did not have rifles with them, including ammunition or camping supplies
The training program has successfully identified key solutions to avoid being eaten by zombies, through a training program to prepare the scientists on their travels to New York State’s CDC, but other areas will need improvement before the program is at 100 percent.
Introduction & Background
Post-zombie apocalypse training is a necessary element for surviving. In this case study, Rob Carlson and Carol Montega are designing and co-teaching a zombie training program that will train ten scientists for their journey to New York State’s CDC to obtain a cure for zombie-ism. The problems encountered in this case study is that there has been a miscommunication in the use of rifles by two separate parties on the same day; one by Rob Carlson’s second in command, Moe, and Rob Carlson himself for his zombie invasion training. The second problem is that there is a lack of organization. There wasn’t a strict policy enforced about scientist quarantining themselves before training occurs or supplies needed for training, so three of ten trainees didn’t start their mandatory quarantine and one scientist is appearing to either be nervous, or was infected by the zombie virus.
Key Problems
The problems encountered in this case study is that there has been a miscommunication in the use of rifles by two separate parties on the same day and no organization for pre-entrance for the scientist before their training occurs. On June 10th, Rob Carlson checked with the scientist that was going to travel to New York’s CDC. He discovered that 3 of 10 were never experienced the mandatory quarantine, others never learned the basics such as building a fire without matches, and only 2 scientist had functioning rifles. Several didn’t have camping supplies or ammunition. The underlying issue for this is that, if you are training someone for such crisis that has already occurred, then a rifle supply should be given and as well ammunition. Key components are missing to understand the apocalypse such as: Are the survivors the only ones left? If not, are there others nearby to borrow more guns and ammunition from? Rob Carlson should have contacted his second in command to coordinate the usage of the rifles by everyone, or had a third party to handle coordinating. Secondly, Rob Carlson could have had Carol Montega to coordinate, or get a 3rd party, the quarantine of the scientist who would be on the journey to the CDC in New York to make sure they have not been infected with the zombie virus.
Alternatives & Proposed Solutions
The most viable alternative to the key problems Blue Mountain’s trainees have are: coordinating and organizing the zombie training program more efficiently and finding other methods besides the use of guns for zombie control when attacked out in the field. According to Tulabut, “Guns are not always available, so become handy with bows and arrows. Not only do they look cool, they are virtually silent, so you will not attract unwanted attention” (Tulabut, 2006). This would be a solution for the sniper trainees who will be using the rifles on the same day as Rob Carlson’s zombie evasion training program and vice versa. Since Blue Mountain was a former summer camp, they may these bows and arrows readily available to use. A fragment of the seminar could also be tough on how to make your own arrows from trees in the wilderness. This is reusable tools and this would save on ammunition as well. Tulabut also suggest that you should be a strong swimmer because zombies, at this point cannot swim, and will only sink to the bottom of the pool, or ocean floor and survive. The author proposes kickboxing and spinning classes to build endurance because zombies are slow, but sneaky (Tulabut, 2006). The second alternative solution for the zombie evasion training is to have other key point of contacts to coordinate who will use what facility and supplies on what certain day and time to avoid future confusion for trainees and directors. When you are successfully trained in one area, then it is much easier to train and deal with hazard preparedness in the future. “If you are generally well equipped to deal with a zombie apocalypse, you will be prepared for a hurricane, pandemic, earth quake or terrorist” (Nelson, 2013).
Recommendations
“The idea has at least some basis in reality- Centers for Disease Control report last year outlined the problems of dealing with a natural disaster or viral pandemic that could turn large segments of the population against each other” (New York Post Corporation, 2012). If the population of survivors views that protection and organization does not exist, then chaos will occur and disorder. Organization begins with the smallest task, such as coordinating the rifle usage between the two parties. Some key strategies to organization is to identify who the leaders could potentially be and allow them to be point of contacts, so that zombie evasion training program and any other training classes that will benefit the masses of survivors. The second strategy is to cross train the trainees, and or survivors to use not only guns, but other weapons to kill the zombies as well, such as bows and arrow and hammers.