I'd like to start a game I saw years ago. You start with a scenario and an image. From the image you pick what tools you would use to accomplish the task to complete the scenario. No changing the scenario or adding items to use. Read the scenario thoroughly before deciding what item to take and how to complete the scenario. Critical thinking skills are the goal here.
Scenario: Get home from the city
You work downtown in a major metropolitan city and commute to work from the suburbs. You travel via midsize SUV on an elevated expressway that runs through the center of the city. You work 20 miles from where you live and your commute is normally 30-45 minutes depending on traffic which can be heavy.
You work in a high rise downtown and wear business attire (e.g. suit/shirt and tie) to work. You park in an underground parking garage under your building and work on the tenth floor. Your building, and much of the city, have been experiencing brownouts as a result of a summer heat wave.
You leave work on a mid summer Friday evening at 6:00 pm. The current temperature is 85 degrees with high humidity. At 6:10 pm, three miles from work, you are stopped in heavy traffic on the expressway near an on ramp. You are stopped at a stand still for 15 minutes. All lanes are full, the on ramp adjacent to you is backed up and the shoulder is closed due to construction.
You check Waze to see what is causing the traffic to be stopped. There are no accidents reported in the area and no planned road closures due to the construction. After another 15 minutes you hear breaking news on the radio that a planned peaceful protest has turned violent near the city center. Police have been deployed to various locations where the violence is occurring and started to use tear gas.
As the news continues to provide information about the ongoing unrest you start to see several people walking up the on ramp and towards the vehicles stopped ahead of you. They don't appear to be coming from the stopped vehicles. As you look ahead you see a large group of people start to smash the windows of the vehicles stopped ahead of you. The group starts to pull people out of their vehicles and assault them without provocation. The group is at least 50+ strong, 100 yards from your vehicle, and closing in quickly.
At 6:45 pm you make the decision to bug out from your vehicle. On your person you have your wallet (or purse) with ID, credit/debit cards, some miscellaneous cards and $50 cash. You have your cell phone with 50% battery remaining. Nothing else on your person.
You have enough time to grab three (3) times out of your vehicle and go. Assume all items are full/charged and in good working order.
List of items:
Gym bag (contains shorts, t-shirt, socks, athletic shoes, empty shaker bottle with protein powder in separate compartment)
Blow out kit (contains gloves, CPR mask, EMT shears, Sharpie, duck tape, CAT tourniquet, TK4 tourniquet, Israeli bandage, homeostatic bandage, gauze, chest seal, nasal airway)
Tarp (6'x8')
Battery with charging cable (set)
N95 mask with hand sanitizer (set)
3L water in container
2" Ball hitch
Hitch wrench
Folding knife
Tactical flashlight
Pepper spray
Tire iron
Tool bag (contains work gloves, jumper cables, zip ties, chem lights, various hand tools)
Roll of paper towels
Road flares (6)
Flex cuffs
Folding surplus military shovel
Do you bug out to home or work?
What three (3) items do you grab and why?
Scenario: Get home from the city
You work downtown in a major metropolitan city and commute to work from the suburbs. You travel via midsize SUV on an elevated expressway that runs through the center of the city. You work 20 miles from where you live and your commute is normally 30-45 minutes depending on traffic which can be heavy.
You work in a high rise downtown and wear business attire (e.g. suit/shirt and tie) to work. You park in an underground parking garage under your building and work on the tenth floor. Your building, and much of the city, have been experiencing brownouts as a result of a summer heat wave.
You leave work on a mid summer Friday evening at 6:00 pm. The current temperature is 85 degrees with high humidity. At 6:10 pm, three miles from work, you are stopped in heavy traffic on the expressway near an on ramp. You are stopped at a stand still for 15 minutes. All lanes are full, the on ramp adjacent to you is backed up and the shoulder is closed due to construction.
You check Waze to see what is causing the traffic to be stopped. There are no accidents reported in the area and no planned road closures due to the construction. After another 15 minutes you hear breaking news on the radio that a planned peaceful protest has turned violent near the city center. Police have been deployed to various locations where the violence is occurring and started to use tear gas.
As the news continues to provide information about the ongoing unrest you start to see several people walking up the on ramp and towards the vehicles stopped ahead of you. They don't appear to be coming from the stopped vehicles. As you look ahead you see a large group of people start to smash the windows of the vehicles stopped ahead of you. The group starts to pull people out of their vehicles and assault them without provocation. The group is at least 50+ strong, 100 yards from your vehicle, and closing in quickly.
At 6:45 pm you make the decision to bug out from your vehicle. On your person you have your wallet (or purse) with ID, credit/debit cards, some miscellaneous cards and $50 cash. You have your cell phone with 50% battery remaining. Nothing else on your person.
You have enough time to grab three (3) times out of your vehicle and go. Assume all items are full/charged and in good working order.
List of items:
Gym bag (contains shorts, t-shirt, socks, athletic shoes, empty shaker bottle with protein powder in separate compartment)
Blow out kit (contains gloves, CPR mask, EMT shears, Sharpie, duck tape, CAT tourniquet, TK4 tourniquet, Israeli bandage, homeostatic bandage, gauze, chest seal, nasal airway)
Tarp (6'x8')
Battery with charging cable (set)
N95 mask with hand sanitizer (set)
3L water in container
2" Ball hitch
Hitch wrench
Folding knife
Tactical flashlight
Pepper spray
Tire iron
Tool bag (contains work gloves, jumper cables, zip ties, chem lights, various hand tools)
Roll of paper towels
Road flares (6)
Flex cuffs
Folding surplus military shovel
Do you bug out to home or work?
What three (3) items do you grab and why?
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