After Bush left Florida, where he had been reading a book to schoolkids, his plane was low on fuel but for hours had nowhere to land.was preparing to go to DEFCON 3 - but the White House couldn’t put him through to Air Force One. Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to speak to Bush to know why the U.S. officials couldn’t talk to each other or to anyone else. Because of inadequate communications equipment and procedures, top U.S.Air Force bombers at three airbases when al Qaeda struck New York and Washington. Three dozen live nuclear weapons were aboard U.S.

Game time approaches.Based on a review of newly unclassified documents, memoirs and other published accounts, and interviews with U.S. Nothing is won or lost yet, but if your people aren’t in the right place now, or very soon, your options will begin to narrow.

To put it in terms of the Ronde van Vlaanderen, the race is approaching 100km to go and there are two breaks up the road, one of which has a few riders in it who could be important riders to control the break’s movements as the race reaches the bulk of the climbs. The Russkies haven’t launched anything, but their submarine movements are troubling. Hart, the bad boss, is in charge of the computer system and hears pangs of truth in what Ferris is screaming as he’s being dragged away. General Mace Mobrey wants Ferris taken to GITMO but Mr. Northern Exposure’s Mace Mobrey and the bad boss from 9 to 5 are down on the main floor of the operations chamber arguing about what’s going on when a secretary discovers Ferris hacking into the system again - except Ferris discovers the war game he previously launched inadvertently is still happening. In the film, NORAD is at DEFCON 4 while Ferris Bueller is left alone in an office with access to a secure computer, notwithstanding the fact that he’s only in NORAD because he had previously hacked into the computer system from a Tandy T100 or whatever that he bought at Radio Shack. There aren’t any races happening today, so if you are going to implement increased intelligence and strengthened security, then you should watch some YouTube videos of a few one-pointers and maybe do some research about team leadership plans at grand tours.ĭEFCON 4 has been used a number of times, such as in the aftermath of 9/11, and probably a few other times we don’t know about which are decidedly un-funny to contemplate.

To put that in more useful terms, it means you have to be a bit more ready to submit your team. Green is good?ĭEFCON 4 translates to “above normal readiness” in terms of military status, and includes increased intelligence watch and strengthened security measures. Remember, until you hit “SUBMIT” on your team, you’re not in. Or you already started but haven’t finished. you have a login here), then go directly to the FSA DS game page and get started. Or if you are already a member of the Cafe (i.e.

WIth the deadline now only four days away, NORAD has moved our worldwide FSA Directeur Sportif DEFCON level to 4.įor all details about the game, read this post. I am also using an alternative Ronde van Vlaanderen condition to similarly motivate you to finish your team. From yesterday’s deadline post, you probably know that the deadline is approaching to submit your FSA Directeur Sportif team, and that I am using the old movie War Games to dramatize the urgency of the situation.

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