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Originally Posted by mugwump
Here's a moral quandary for consideration: The grid has just gone down. From the lack of any federal comms and what you can glean from local hams it looks to be nation-wide. Traffic on the state road has dropped to a trickle. A truck full of Useful Stuff drives into town. Driver says it's headed for the hospital in the small city 80 miles to the west. What do you do? If you let it go it's unlikely to make it to its destination. If you commandeer it, people will die. Keep it? Tax it? Escort it? Let it go?
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Keep driver contained from community and positively shape his perceptions
Quickly inventory vehicle with permission
Develop escort plan, actions on, prioritised opportunity list, and cost/benefit
Take a calculated risk if deemed worthwhile…..
Heavy escort, assuming fuel is available
Attempt coms with hospital/authority while en route thru HAM network
If coms established begin negotiating in good faith based on known inventory
If coms not established send recce element forward to negotiate in good faith once a harbour position is established outside of destination as well as information requirements on community.
Marry up procedure.
Take fair and reasonable cut that incorporates a goodwill investment in ongoing relationship with hospital/community to be leveraged in the future.
If not dead yet, we have initiated a positive relationship with a distant community while taking some for ourselves, we have conducted short but comprehensive information collection on the community, conducted a route recce on MSRs between FOB Honey Badger and city, identified potential low risk, high reward scrounging opportunities en route as well as problem areas, and kept FOB Honey Badger's poker hand close to the vest.
I'm sure there's stuff I missed.