Monday, March 5, 2012

Bigfoot exercises

There's a series of emergency exercises going on this year entitled "Formidable Footprint" -- which sounds like euphemism for Bigfoot. Some individual exercise names are:

Operation Acorn Drop
Outbreak Anarchy
Pandemic Pandemonium
Accommodating Accommodations

Campus Whirlwind [reap it!]
Felonious Fog [arrest it!]
Extreme Exposure [Mountain Dew and skateboards?]
Mailstrom Mayhem [spam attack?]
Rumble In The Rubble [wrestling event?]

Gastro Gambit ["Gambit: From Italian gambetto, literally, act of tripping someone" -- Webster's dictionary]

Hurricane Dough [D'oh?]
Hurricane Helper [the friendly hurricane!]
Hurricane John Paul
[The Pope? Beatles members? The Led Zeppelin bassist? The naval hero? Sartre? I guess that's the kind of confusion we may face in the field.

"Suffering is justified as soon as it becomes the raw material of beauty." - Sartre

"Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move" - Led Zeppelin

"If the rain comes they run and hide their heads.
They might as well be dead." - The Beatles

"[A naval officer] should be quick and unfailing to distinguish ... thoughtlessness from incompetency, and well meant shortcoming from heedless or stupid blunder." - John Paul Jones

"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one musn't misuse it." - Pope John Paul II]