I understood it as something bad on the way..
if its just generally...'bad stuff but I don't know what' like....I had a bad dream or message from god or something just saying 'get ready' this is what I have in my DEFCON booklet for general threats.
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DEFCON 5 (lowest defensive condition)
Trigger events: No known threaten condition or suspicion of such. Actions: no special actions.
DEFCON 4 (increased vigilance)
Trigger events: any condition that limits the ability of personnel to asses potential threats (darkness, fog, heavy rain, lack of on duty personnel,)
DEFCON 4 must be set at any time all Tower personnel will be absent from Tower property for any amount of time as well as at sunset and any time all personnel are expected to be asleep or otherwise incapacitated.
DEFCON 4 must also be set whenever any outside personnel (known or unknown) enter Tower property
Actions: All animals and personnel accounted for. Doors and windows shut. Power and environmental controls shut down or set to automatic control. Perishable food placed in storage. Weapons located and condition checked. Cell phones and communication devices kept at hand or charging.
DEFCON 3 (heightened security)
Trigger events: Suspicion of possible threat.
Possible triggers include Increasing or dramatic weather events, any loss of electrical power for an unknown cause lasting longer than five minutes. News events such as MEANS alerts, nearby criminal behavior in progress or national emergency. Any simultaneous or compounding loss of multiple communication systems (radio, internet, phone etc)
Unexplained threatening sounds at any distance ( clattering metal outside the door, distant explosions, unknown voices)
Unexplained visual events ( lights in the sky, unusual contrails, unexplained or mysterious motion of trees or brush. Unusual or threatening animal activity (wild or domestic)
DEFCON 3 must be set any time unknown personnel of a suspicious nature approach or enter Tower property (Police, governmental or authority representatives, vehicles operating in an aggressive or suspicious manner, unknown persons on foot on or off road)
Actions: Doors secured, animals placed inside. All personnel accounted for and informed of situation. All personnel awoken and dressed. Cell phones and communication devices kept at hand at all times. If dark exterior lights and/or surveillance activated. Weapons checked, and made readily available. All none essential electronic devices silenced or shut off, including
environmental systems.
Tower is not to be left unmanned at any point.
DEFCON 3 has an automatic thirty minute minimum duration regardless of decreasing threat levels.
DEFCON 2 (High Security)
Trigger events: warning of possible eminent deadly or disastrous threat. Dangerous personnel or animals inbound. Extreme weather in visual range. Catastrophic national emergency (War, pandemic) Global disaster (meteor strike, solar flare)
Actions:
Doors locked, outbuildings and gates closed and locked if possible and preformed safely. Animals placed inside and secured. All personnel accounted for, informed and kept in visual or voice contact. Weapons loaded, rounds chambered, safeties on and all trained personnel armed and in guard positions. Body armor worn. No personnel to leave tower or defensive works alone and/or unarmed. Clothing and other equipment to be donned if possible and if time allows but weapons and security measures take precedent. All equipment set to manual operation or disabled. Nuclear Biological or Chemical (NBC) equipment made ready as well as food and water located within easy reach of guard positions. Electronic equipment silenced.
Automatic 24 hour duration.
DEFCON 1 (Maximum security)
Trigger events: Presence of deadly or disastrous threat on Tower property.
Actions: Same as in DEFCON 2 with the following exceptions: Weapon safeties off, free fire authority given. NBC gear donned and operational. No non essential communications of any kind. Assume that forward positions will be destroyed/overrun and be prepared to fall back to inner positions.
If threat is none reactive (natural disaster, etc) Weapons condition to be maintained as per DEFCON 3 and greater priority given to proper clothing for the situation.
DEFCON 1 is a de-facto state of war. As such all external laws and customs are rescinded and tower personnel will not obey or respond to external orders or communications.
Duration indefinite but under no circumstances to be lifted until threat is eliminated or absent. =============================================================================
