as far we/the survivors kno civilization as we kno it is long gone

 

Well that was the National Guard, I was hoping that Marines would have definitely put up more of a fight. But heck who knows, we could see more.

 

I'm not learned in these matters but wouldn't the military have special frequencies on their radios to be in touch with superiors or other army units?
To me it seems like no one is around, period.
I wonder if Dick Cheney was brought in to shoot the zombie president.

 

It is entierly possible that there are more military units somewhere. As for Rick and Co., not gonna see any anytime soon.

 

There has to be some fortified position or base. The soldiers are too well armed and trained to just disappear. The Government has installations o hide in in case of a nuclear war. If a combat Brigade decides to hold a position or town and dig in a few thousand walkers arent gonna take them out with all of that firepower.

 

They don't even need firepower to take out a zombie threat. What they need is a lot of fuel and some armored vehicles with plenty of room to work in. Lead hordes to their pos and run them over with Abrams and other armored vehicles. After a few passes, use bulldozers to shove them all in prepped trenches. Would make for boring TV though.

The tricky part would be clearing houses and other buildings, but it's not like your enemy is shooting back at ya. Would be long and drawn out, but doable.

There are other seemingly mindless ways to take care of a threat like this, but those too would also make for boring TV.

 

I don't think that's all of the military... Surely there are more somewhere out there.

 

That's what I'm thinking too. Gotta be some units out there who stayed together.

 

That is the one thing that I never understood about Zombie movies; The military just gets wiped out. I could see the military being devastated but in reality, especially the United States Military, zombies would stand no chance. Then again, they have to make movies/tv shows more interesting

 

There's a really interesting part of World War Z (the Battle of Yonkers) that lays out how unprepared, untrained, and unequipped the US military is to handle a massive ground invasion like a ZA would be. It's a really interesting exercise in speculative military strategy.

 

I think any first responder scenario would apply. It's the people hiding in their houses and preparing that are most likely to survive if you ask me, not the guys going out there and confronting like the police/military.

 

The random helicopter that flies over in scenes during the first and second season is driving me insane. Who is it? Where are they flying to? Come back!!!

 

I think that was a tv chopper if I recall correctly.

 

Same reason the dumb blonde goes out to the lake where the psycho killed a bunch of people 10 years to that day a "real" zombie movie involving the US military would be pretty boring. A couple expendable bases might fall but the entire military wouldn't. It doesn't matter how unequipped they are to fight zombies they're still the worst infantry attack in human history they're slow and dim witted they're only attack is getting people by surprise. It may happen to the groups sent out first but there would still be millions of armed forces on the bases they would be shut down and anybody in the kill zone would be shot on the spot. It would take 10,000+ walkers to even dent a defensive military position and the first higher up with common sense would take over historic forts or a location that has walls that walkers don't just simply slip by.


Throw some machine guns on there and a constant patrol and it's 100% walker proof no matter how large the herd is 20,000,000 walkers couldn't bring those walls down cannon fire couldn't even do it.

 

If they're as well trained as those poor bastards the Gov. shot, I have little hope for the military. mean Really! I might be happy to see other people, but I would have never let my guard down, much less let someone I don't know get that close to me. I'm surprised the survived as long as they did. I'm a naturally suspicious person (I have a kid) and my kid is who I'd be thinking about when I met strangers -especially during the ZA.

 

I have a family member in the Marines and she tells me that the officers are useless. They go by the chain of command: trouble is, that 'chain' is knotted to the point that nothing gets done right. If they did this in actual combat, it would be no wonder the military got wiped out.
Think Gorman in the movie Aliens, then imagine, a WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM together trying to get sh#t done. Frightening isn't it?

 

I really gotta read that book

 

I thought that was the helicopter they found at the beginning of Season 3?