Re: Lochbaum on OSRE's

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@comcast.net>]

Hi Tim,

Does your statement below imply that Lochbaum's statement is fairly

acccurate? That's how I read what you wrote.



Norm



Tim wrote:



> > Dave Lochbaum wrote:

> >

> > > The OSREs pit one or more mock attackers against

> > the plant's

> > > armed responders. Because the OSRE is a simulated

> > attack, no

> > > real weapons are used. Consequently, OSRE

> > controllers are used

> > > to determine outcomes throughout the OSRE. For

> > example, the

> > > mock attacker(s) do not really blow up locked

> > doors, so the

> > > controllers determine based on the amount of

> > simulated explosives

> > > carried if the door is breached. Likewise, when an

> > attacker encounters

> > > an armed responder, the controller determines who

> > shot whom.

>

> The issue is how to best simulate an attack to gauge

> how well the security force repels it.  Since real

> weapons obviously can not be used, they have to make

> the best out of it.

>

> You have to rememeber that while these expercises are

> going on, there are still plant workers that need to

> do their job to ensure that the plant remains

> operating safely.  What if someone tried to attack the

> plant WHILE the OSRE was going on (e.g. the guards did

> not have live ammo).

>

> How would the guards know to use live rounds because

> it was now the "real" thing?  Wouldn't that be very

> dangerous for the mock attackers knowing that they

> could be mistaken for a real intruder and killed?

>

> It's not as easy as taking two teams to a remote (and

> secure) area to commence war games with "laser tag"

> type weapons.

>

> Tim

>

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