And here's another one.....this one got taken down shortly after it was put up, and may have been cancelled.....but was up long enough to be archived:But if you think that's waste, you need to know about the extraordinary training that the DHS was able to provide to first responders this year. They made attendance at the HALO Corp.'s 2012 Counter-Terrorism Summit an allowable expense for federal grant money. Yes, the California-based security company's five-day event was held at a posh island resort and spa just outside of San Diego and cost $1,000 per person to attend, but that's not even the best part. The showpiece event of the summit made was a live war game of a zombie apocalypse, complete with 40 actors in full zombie makeup as well as "state-of-the-art structure, pyrotechnic battlefield effects, medical special effects, vehicles and blank-firing weapons" according to a promotional video by HALO President Brad Barker.
http://web.archive.org/web/201303022327 ... id=1212582
Zombie UFO Crash Disaster Full-Scale Exercise
There are 2 scenarios: mass casualty and a rope rescue. All Latah Co first responders and nearby counties will be participating. CERT will be assisting in the EOC and other duties as deemed necessary.[/url]
Just too much time on their hands and too much money, or something else?
Illinois lawmakers burned through $45.6 million in DHS grants to install security cameras in Chicago and Cook County before they abandoned the project without the cameras ever working.
For example, money from the DHS's Urban Areas Security Initiative went to buy snow cone machines in Michigan. Places like Fargo, N.D., and Keene, N.H., now have armored vehicles at their disposal, as do many other small towns. Keene said the vehicle was needed to protect its annual Pumpkin Festival.
