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==== Exercise Location, Rules, and Expectations ====
==== Exercise Location, Rules, and Expectations ====
Scenario Village takes place at the Portland Police Bureau Training Division facility, [https://goo.gl/maps/VMdK4abtXtFcwXSy9 14912 NE Airport Way] in Portland. Exercise participants are guests of the Portland Police Bureau. NETs continuing to exercise at Scenario Village depends on following the rules of this highly secure facility. Failure to abide by appropriate conduct can result in a permanent ban from the facility, and removal from the NET program in egregious cases.  
Scenario Village takes place at the Portland Police Bureau Training Division facility, [https://goo.gl/maps/VMdK4abtXtFcwXSy9 14912 NE Airport Way] in Portland. Exercise participants are guests of the Portland Police Bureau. NETs continuing to exercise at Scenario Village depends on following the rules of this highly secure facility. Failure to abide by appropriate conduct can result in a permanent ban from the facility, and removal from the NET program in egregious cases.  
You can download a rough map of the Village by clicking [https://hcpaw.portlandoregon.gov/u/4hCPVguQj0rwEI9V/9fca2bef-4c86-4a88-aa99-2688f027902a?l HERE].


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* '''Sign in when you arrive.''' If the scatterbrained PBEM employee running the exercise forgot to bring a sign-in sheet, make one and turn it in to PBEM.
* '''Sign in when you arrive.''' If the scatterbrained PBEM employee running the exercise forgot to bring a sign-in sheet, make one and turn it in to PBEM.
* '''Do not bring cutting instruments/sharp instruments into the exercise area''' ([[bandage shears]] are an exception). PPB personnel will confiscate them, to be returned to you before you leave. That's right: no small pocketknives or multitools with pocketknives either.
* '''Do not bring cutting instruments/sharp instruments into the exercise area''' ([[bandage shears]] are an exception). PPB personnel will confiscate them, to be returned to you before you leave. That's right: no small pocketknives or multitools with pocketknives either.
* '''A PPB Officer will perform a pat-down of every person entering the exercise space to check for weapons.''' Like extra screening by TSA at the airport.
* '''Do not leave any permanent markings on any walls.''' If you want to make building markings in the Village, use a sheet of paper (provided by PBEM).
* '''Do not leave any permanent markings on any walls.''' If you want to make building markings in the Village, use a sheet of paper (provided by PBEM).
* '''Wear closed toe and sensible footwear.''' Heels, mandals and sandals are not permitted in the facility.
* '''Wear closed toe and sensible footwear.''' Heels, mandals and sandals are not permitted in the facility.
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In any Scenario Village exercise, assumptions and artificialities ensure completing play in the time allotted and/or account for logistical limitations. Scenario Village participants should accept assumptions and artificialities, and not allow these considerations to negatively impact participation.
In any Scenario Village exercise, assumptions and artificialities ensure completing play in the time allotted and/or account for logistical limitations. Scenario Village participants should accept assumptions and artificialities, and not allow these considerations to negatively impact participation.


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* '''Cell service is "down"'''; players cannot use cell phones to communicate with each other. ''However'', participants may use the [[Damage Assessment Mapping Module|DAMM]].
* '''Cell service is "down"'''; players cannot use cell phones to communicate with each other. ''However'', participants may use the [[Damage Assessment Mapping Module|DAMM]].
* Because of security rules of the Village, '''players cannot carry cutting instruments/sharp instruments into the exercise area.'''
* Because of security rules of the Village, '''players cannot carry cutting instruments/sharp instruments into the exercise area.'''
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==== Exercise Improvement Suggestions ====
==== Exercise Improvement Suggestions ====
Over the years, NETs have made suggestions concerning how PBEM might improve the exercise. The collapsed table is a list of things PBEM has not yet tried.
Over the years, NETs have made suggestions concerning how PBEM might improve the exercise. The collapsed table is a list of things PBEM has not yet tried.
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|Screen off different areas of SV so that Players cannot look across the room to see what is happening (such as the medical treatment area); being able to do that would not be realistic in a real-world event. In other words, simulate that some activities are taking place in a whole other part of a neighborhood instead of only a few feet away. This would also make radio comms more meaningful in the exercise. ''(suggested by Bob Fischer, 2020.01.18.)''
|Good idea, but not sure what we could use for screening.
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==== Exercise Timeline ====
==== Exercise Timeline ====
'''Before you visit the Scenario Village facility,''' please view the section on [[how to prepare for the exercise]] and arrive ready to go.
 
 
Before you visit the Scenario Village facility, please view the section on [[how to prepare for the exercise]] and arrive ready to go.
[[File:SV.OpWentzek.Maxfield.jpg|alt=Alice Busch preparing NET volunteers in the lobby area of PPB's Training Division.|thumb|400x400px|''Alice Busch preparing NET volunteers in the lobby area of PPB's Training Division.'']]
[[File:SV.OpWentzek.Maxfield.jpg|alt=Alice Busch preparing NET volunteers in the lobby area of PPB's Training Division.|thumb|400x400px|''Alice Busch preparing NET volunteers in the lobby area of PPB's Training Division.'']]
Unless you receive an email with a different timetable, the timetable for your experience at Scenario Village looks like this:
'''Unless you receive an email with a''' different '''timetable, the timetable for your experience at Scenario Village looks like this:'''
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|All Players, Survivors, Observers, and Proctors bag checked, marked, and cleared for entry into the Village area. As Survivors process in, Proctors will place them, answer questions, and listen to [[awesome music]]. Meanwhile, Players gather in the Village ready room and/or outside doors to the Village and discuss operations planning further.
|All Players, Survivors, Observers, and Proctors bag checked, marked, and cleared for entry into the Village area. As Survivors process in, Proctors will place them, answer questions, and listen to [https://vimeo.com/808222802 awesome music]. Meanwhile, Players gather in the Village ready room and/or outside doors to the Village and discuss operations planning further.
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===== General Preparation for Scenario Village =====
===== General Preparation for Scenario Village =====
{{#ev:youtube|KwV3e1XfIF0|350|right|''Reviewing CERT in Action is a good way to prepare.''|frame}}
{{#ev:youtube|-pjQ0FNzkLQ|350|right|''In Scenario Village, we talk about moving with intention and purpose. This short film (made by Gus Van Sant in the early 1980s) was really intended as a parody of industrial culture. But in its own way, the lesson of teaching yourself to move with intent is not a bad one.''|frame}}


* '''Have one or two key phone numbers handy.''' If you are late, or get locked out of an area, be ready to call a fellow NET or PBEM staff in the exercise so someone can let you in.
* '''Have one or two key phone numbers handy.''' If you are late, or get locked out of an area, be ready to call a fellow NET or PBEM staff in the exercise so someone can let you in.
* If you have time, review the suite of '''NET training refresher videos''' posted here on the NET Vimeo account: https://vimeo.com/showcase/10725195.
* If inclined and you have time to, '''skim through the [https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2019.CERT_.Basic_.PM_FINAL_508c.pdf Basic CERT textbook]'''. Give particular attention to scene sizeup, conducting interior search operations, triage, patient carries, ICS document use, treating life threatening conditions (the "three killers"), head to toe assessment, wound care, and fracture treatment.
* If inclined and you have time to, '''skim through the [https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2019.CERT_.Basic_.PM_FINAL_508c.pdf Basic CERT textbook]'''. Give particular attention to scene sizeup, conducting interior search operations, triage, patient carries, ICS document use, treating life threatening conditions (the "three killers"), head to toe assessment, wound care, and fracture treatment.
* '''Re-familiarize yourself with your [[FRS/GMRS radio]]''' if you plan to use them.
* '''Re-familiarize yourself with your [[FRS/GMRS radio]]''' if you plan to use them.
* If you plan to attend Scenario Village with your team, '''go over your team's [[Ops Plan]]''' and make sure everyone on the team has agreed who will take which roles (particularly [[Incident Team Leader]]).
* If you plan to attend Scenario Village with your team, '''go over your team's [[Ops Plan]]''' and make sure everyone on the team has agreed who will take which roles (particularly [[Incident Team Leader]]).
* '''Check through your response pack.''' Make sure you have everything you need where you plan to find it, and remove sharp instruments.
* '''Check through your response pack.''' Make sure you have everything you need where you plan to find it, and remove sharp instruments. '''Your multitool is not allowed inside Scenario Village''', and we are all patted down for weapons when we enter the exercise area.


<span style="color:#ffffff">...</span>[[File:ScenarioVillage.Ross1.jpg|alt=Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor.|thumb|''Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor. Are you smarter than Bob Ross? Because I ain't.'']]
<span style="color:#ffffff">...</span>[[File:ScenarioVillage.Ross1.jpg|alt=Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor.|thumb|''Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor. Are you smarter than Bob Ross? Because I ain't.'']]
===== Preparing Yourself Mentally =====
===== Preparing Yourself Mentally =====
*'''Prepare for some stress.''' For the exercise to be a meaningful training experience, the exercise designer is going to introduce some level of stress. If you find the exercise easy, the exercise designer did their job poorly. If you find an exercise ''too'' stressful, ask your Incident Team Leader or the exercise proctors to turn it down, and/or check out with your Team Leader and take a break on the observation deck.
*'''Prepare for some stress.''' Scenario Village training is intended to be ''tolerably'' stressful so that participants can experience, and practice managing, stress induced impairment of the brain functions that are most sensitive to stress: executive function, sensory awareness, attention, and memory.<ref>Quoting this [https://hcpaw.portlandoregon.gov/u/xqPeQS8j3iTUo95C/08072591-2b69-455c-8333-c416ac6535c4?l from a paper] written 2023.11.07 by Nick McCullar, NW District NET, based on the work found in:
 
Hristić, Ana. 2023. “Foundations of TIC.” Presented at the EMCR 587 Fall 2023, Class Session 5, Portland State University, October 24.</ref> For the exercise to be a meaningful training experience, the exercise designer is going to introduce some level of stress. If you find the exercise easy, the exercise designer did their job poorly. If you find an exercise ''too'' stressful, ask your Incident Team Leader or the exercise proctors to turn it down, and/or check out with your Team Leader and take a break on the observation deck.
*'''The exercise is not a competition''' between volunteers on a shift. On the contrary, as they would in the real world, PBEM encourages Players to work collaboratively.  
*'''The exercise is not a competition''' between volunteers on a shift. On the contrary, as they would in the real world, PBEM encourages Players to work collaboratively.  
*'''Don't fret about "failure" or "making mistakes".''' As long as everyone walks away from the exercise uninjured (in the real-world) the only way you can "fail" is by not learning anything. Use the Scenario Village space and time to make mistakes and experiment; that's exactly why we exercise. It is strange the number of volunteers who walk away from Scenario Village feeling unsettled, even dispirited, like they "didn't do a good job".  As long as you learn from the exercise, you did a good job. Go get some (locally made) ice cream when it's over, OK? You earned it.
*'''Don't fret about "failure" or "making mistakes".''' As long as everyone walks away from the exercise uninjured (in the real-world) the only way you can "fail" is by not learning anything. Use the Scenario Village space and time to make mistakes and experiment; that's exactly why we exercise. It is strange the number of volunteers who walk away from Scenario Village feeling unsettled, even dispirited, like they "didn't do a good job".  As long as you learn from the exercise, you did a good job. Go get some (locally made) ice cream when it's over, OK? You earned it.
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|'''VSF 05.01: Incident Team Leader'''
|Plan for less standing around.
The ITL sent in several teams for recon and initial assessment while members of the other team stood out in the cold. (Although we did move inside for the second round).
It would have been better to find a way to utilize everyone or at least switch up the teams so that the same people weren’t left standing around while the first teams did their work.
|Inefficient use of personnel resources.
|ITL could plot out how to shift roles during periods of a response, so everyone has a job to do at a given time.
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|'''VSF 09.01 Search & Rescue'''
|Consider whether your flashlight is powerful enough for S&R.
|A weak light leads to hazards and poor observation/situational awareness.
|At some point, PBEM or the NETs should spec out minimum standards for search and rescue flashlights. A cursory internet search suggests 500 to 700 lumens (but, be sure you're not shining it in someone's face when you're rescuing them).
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|'''VSF 02: Communications'''
|Need to standardize radio communications; specifically, what to say and in what order, as well as how to hold a radio for best transmission.
|Confusion over radio comms.
|This is something that should certainly be factored into Team Operations Planning.
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===== Q: What time should I arrive? =====
===== Q: What time should I arrive? =====
If you are in the AM shift, arrive between 9:00 and 9:30 AM. If you are in the PM shift, arrive between 1:00 and 1:30 PM. Don't be too early, because the doors won't open before your time (you can wait in the parking lot if you are early). And don't be late or you might not get in! Again, address is [https://goo.gl/maps/VMdK4abtXtFcwXSy9 14912 NE Airport Way] in Portland.
At beginning of your scheduled shift, but not earlier. The doors won't open before your time (you can wait in the parking lot if you are early). And don't be more than 15 minutes late or you might not get in! Again, the address is [https://goo.gl/maps/VMdK4abtXtFcwXSy9 14912 NE Airport Way] in Portland.


===== Q: Is Scenario Village indoors or outdoors? =====
===== Q: Is Scenario Village indoors or outdoors? =====
The Village itself is indoors, but there is no climate control in thar. So if it's cold outside, it will be cold in the Village. Players will probably spend a short amount of time (up to 30 minutes) on the other side of the Village's exterior door. Therefore, weather appropriate clothing is, indeed, appropriate.
The Village itself is indoors, but there is no climate control. So if it's cold outside, it will be cold in the Village. Players will probably spend a short amount of time (up to 30 minutes) on the other side of the Village's exterior door. Therefore, weather appropriate clothing is, indeed, appropriate.


===== Q: Are there restrooms at Scenario Village? =====
===== Q: Are there restrooms at Scenario Village? =====
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===== Q: Will you serve food at the exercise? =====
===== Q: Will you serve food at the exercise? =====
We provide lunch to Survivors and Proctors, but Players are on their own. Sorry, we need to keep costs down.
No, sorry. We are not permitted to purchase food with City funds.


===== Q: Should I bring... =====
===== Q: Should I bring... =====
(INSERT: vest, bandages, [https://krull.fandom.com/wiki/Glaive glaives], pry bar, SKED, ...etc)
(INSERT: vest, bandages, [https://krull.fandom.com/wiki/Glaive glaives], pry bar, SKED, etc.)


The answer to this question is always: ''we don't know...should you?'' Remember: you exercise how you respond. Bring what you would carry in a real response. Think you want to haul around that [[50-pound wrecking bar]]? OK, do it, the Proctors can use the laugh. There are, however, four prescriptive rules concerning what to bring or not to bring:
The answer to this question is always: ''we don't know...should you?'' Remember: you exercise how you respond. Bring what you would carry in a real response. Think you want to haul around that [[50-pound wrecking bar]]? OK, do it, the Proctors can use the laugh. There are, however, four prescriptive rules concerning what to bring or not to bring:
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===== Q: But I can bring bandage shears? =====
===== Q: But I can bring bandage shears? =====
Yes; that is the one exception to the don't bring sharp things to Scenario Village rule.
Yes; that is the one exception to the 'don't bring sharp things' to Scenario Village rule, because they have rounded tips.


===== Q: My NET ID badge expired. Can I still participate? =====
===== Q: My NET ID badge expired. Can I still participate? =====
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===== Q: Will PBEM replace disposables I used during the exercise? =====
===== Q: Will PBEM replace disposables I used during the exercise? =====
Yes, we have a budget for that. While in the exercise, note down what you use. After the exercise, email [mailto:net@portlandoregon.gov net@portlandoregon.gov] with the list and your mailing address. We will replenish your supplies ASAP. Bandages and other disposable medical supplies, caution tape, grease pencils, you name it.
Yes, we have a budget for that. While in the exercise, note down what you use. After the exercise, email [mailto:net@portlandoregon.gov net@portlandoregon.gov] with the list and your mailing address. We will replenish your supplies ASAP. Bandages and other disposable medical supplies, caution tape, grease pencils, etc.


===== Q: I left something at Scenario Village. How can I get it back? =====
===== Q: I left something at Scenario Village. How can I get it back? =====
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|25
|2024.04.27
|Operation Kalapuya
|CDE East Portland, Cannon Beach CERT
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|Van Keuren, Westervelt, Busch
|CDE participants on AM shift, Cannon Beach CERT on PM shift.
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|2023.10.14
|Operation Kathlamet
|Reed, St. Johns, Skyline Ridge, NW District
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|Van Keuren, Westervelt, Busch
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|2023.05.06
|Operation Multnomah
|Latino NET en Cully
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|Van Keuren
|One shift only.
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|2023.03.11
|Operation Wasco
|Blended (AM), South Burlingame (PM)
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|Christensen, Jones, Van Keuren, Westervelt, Legler, Mill (Woodburn)
|Woodburn CERT (4) and Verde NET (16) in AM
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|2022.12.03
|†Operation Vera Katz
|Operation Vera Katz
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|Only one shift (AM).
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== References and Notes ==
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