Author: Tom

Exercise Blue 07

Equipment
8 plastic cups / String/ tea towel to mark exclusion zone	Short pole or litter picking tool / String?

Time Limit	Area Required	Preparation Time
15 minutes	Small/ Indoor	2 minutes

Write numbers 1 through 9 on the bottom of a series of plastic/polystyrene cups. On a small slip of paper write down a random number using each digit ONLY once. Place it ‘in’ one of the cups then assemble the numbered cups in a random order.
Place the cups as a pile, the correct way up, on the middle of your exclusion zone, which only needs to be tea-towel sized, or thereabouts.
You may wish to include a piece of string in the kit, or anything else, just to see how they try to use what you give them.
The exclusion zone gives you and the leader one more hazard to watch out for, along with what you determine to be enough excess pressure on the mat to cause the bomb to detonate.
Using the equipment provided they must deconstruct the pile of cups, then reassemble them using the code on the slip of paper.

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Exercise Blue 07

I will read the following exercise to you twice. On the first reading listen carefully, you may take notes on the second reading and have the opportunity to ask questions. Are you ready?
You are an experienced team trained in code and cipher. You have been dispatched to disarm an explosive device located within a very sensitive area. / You have been informed that the code is located on the top of the 8th key. You must reform the keys in the correct order to disarm the device. / It is thought the keys are heat sensitive, and so must not be touched except with an inanimate object. There is an exclusion zone around the keys, which is heat and pressure sensitive. / You have available to you a hooked pole, an extending-grabby-thing, and anything else you can find about your person. / (Read to Cadet a second time)
You have 3 minutes from the end of this briefing to brief your team and then 15 minutes to disarm the device. / Have you any questions? / (answer by re-reading the relevant part of the briefing)? / Check understanding: / Which cup (key) has the code on it? (8th) / How long will it be before the bomb explodes? (15 mins) / What may not be touched? (ground around it)

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OUTLINE - STAFF EYES ONLY

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CADET BRIEF

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