Role Guide

All Participants

Unified player guidelines — read this first, whatever your role.

No live firearms on site

Weapons secured in your vehicle before participation — verify with the Overwatch Controller.

Your Channels

67P91167F91167E911

Start & end with “Exercise Traffic Only.”

Know the ASHER I.A.P. If you aren’t proficient on it by now, review it immediately (contact EMD or your training officer).
Optional pre-exercise briefing: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM at the Osceola County Emergency Management Center (22054 Professional Dr).
Check in at staging 30 minutes before start — 12:30 PM at the EOC (Reed City) / 5:30 PM at Blodgett Landing (Hersey).
Stage your vehicle in the designated area, then report to the briefing area — Building Dept. lawn (Reed City) / Park Gazebo (Hersey).
Attend the participant briefing — 12:45 PM / 5:45 PM.
SECURE ALL WEAPONS IN YOUR VEHICLE before participating. You will verify with the Overwatch Controller.
Be on the exercise channel. At 1:00 PM / 6:00 PM be ready in your vehicle, monitoring 67P911, 67F911 or 67E911 for exercise start.

After dispatch announces the scenario, the Staging Controller releases units systematically from staging.
Drive safely and cautiously to the site — no lights, no excessive speed. Victim simulators may be in parking lots.
NO LIVE FIREARMS. Conduct all operations in a safe manner.
Start and end every exercise transmission with “EXERCISE TRAFFIC ONLY.”
Use actual plans, references and resources as you would in a real incident, within safety & simulation limits.
Anything that can’t be physically observed must be vocalized over the radio or simulated to a controller.
Follow controller direction at all times. Injects come only as vocal instructions from Controllers.
Work together to execute the Osceola ASHER I.A.P. as fully as possible.

Participate in the on-site hot wash immediately after each run.
After Run #1: re-stage for Run #2 — a new scenario with the same participant roles.
After Run #2: final hot wash, then exercise termination / release.
Share honest feedback in the hot wash — what worked, what didn’t, and gaps in the plan. Additional feedback can go directly to Emergency Management.

Anyone can stop their activity for a safety reason.
Report any unsafe action or condition to the nearest controller immediately — it is everyone’s responsibility, regardless of exercise activity.
Controllers may modify activities at any time for safety.

Use your discipline’s assigned channel (see Comms) — do not use restricted channels for exercise traffic.
Clearly separate exercise traffic from real traffic: “Exercise Traffic Only” for drill messages; “REAL EMERGENCY” for anything real.
The 911 Exercise Controller will make periodic safety announcements.

Simulation level: minimal. Most actions are “walked through” in a carefully controlled, safe manner — no dramatic play-acting.
Stress level: moderate. Best described as a higher-level practice / testing session in a semi-realistic timeframe.
This is less about speed than actually walking through the entire plan. Tactics ARE NOT being evaluated — overall strategy and objectives are.