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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"This is [[
|Announcement made on US nuclear submarine during 1961}}
([[This Is a Drill|But this is.]])
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Second Answer: In the US Air Force, training messages are preceded by the announcement, spoken or written: EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE. Other announcements are assumed to be real world.
The [[Brits With Battleships|Royal Navy
Has nothing at all to do with [[The Treachery of Images|This Is Not A Pipe]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' has an interesting
* The ''[[Ghost in
== Fan Works ==
▲* ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' has an interesting example -- when Gauron had taken control of the [[AI Is a Crapshoot|AI]] of the high-tech submarine, the Tuatha de Danaan, he started a fire-drill to isolate the entire crew in the cargo deck. During this drill, the speakers did in fact blare, "This is a drill"...
* ''[[Undocumented Features]]'': Shows up when [[K-On!|Ritsu of the Sato Academy Light Music Club]] texts everyone in the club at the start of [http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/OOTR/TXT/12-federation/ch9.html chapter 9 of ''The Federation Lives Forever!'']:
▲* The ''[[Ghost in The Shell]]'' anime does this properly, when a chopper pilot dies during a training exercise, the dispatcher announces "This is not a drill" before giving the order to withdraw.
{{quote|Emergency meeting 2p today.
Club room.
REAL emergency. Not a drill.
- R}}
== Film ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Subverted; stormtroopers ignore Obi-Wan's sabotaging the Death Star's tractor beam. One even says in response to the sudden security measures, "It's probably another drill." This is because Vader wanted the ''Millennium Falcon'' and its crew to escape and lead the Imperials to the Rebel base.
* Any movie involving nuclear missile submarines will have at least a reference to missile launch drills.
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** ''K-19 The Widowmaker'' begins with a missile drill aboard the titular submarine. The audience isn't told it's a drill until the system shorts out.
* Parodied in the movie ''[[Dogma]]'':
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* Averted in ''[[
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* Announced constantly in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', pretty much whenever the police show up.
* Subverted in ''[[Resident Evil (
* ''[[Legally Blonde|Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde]]'' has this phrase shouted out.
* In ''[[In Harm's Way]]'', the cruiser sailors are sent to battle stations on Dec. 7, 1941 through an announcement, "This is not a drill, this is not a drill, all hands man your battle stations."
* In ''[[
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== Literature ==
* Paul Carter's second book was named ''This Is Not A Drill'' partly for irony, because he's an oil driller, but mainly because he hears it for real in his first anecdote, where the crew are evacuating an oil rig in imminent danger of capsizing.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'', the crew of ''USS Pharris'' are told that as they are now in a shooting war, there will be no more drills.
* ''[[
** The explanation is reiterated in ''At All Costs'' when {{spoiler|Haven attacks Manticore directly}}.
* Spoofed in a ''[[Harry Potter]]'' parody:
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== Live Action TV ==
* The [[Pilot Movie]] for [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the
* Parodied on ''[[
▲* The [[Pilot Movie]] for the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' showed Viper pilots scrambling for an emergency with "This is not a drill!" blaring on the PA system (as in the page quote above). Understandable in that the ship was about to be decommissioned and no one had seen or heard from the Cylons in forty years. Throughout the series, the crew continues to be regularly told "This is not a drill" whenever the ship is on actual alert.
▲* Parodied on ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'': "This is not a drill! [[This Is a Drill|This is a drill: [sound of electric drill whirring]]]".
** Another episode, in which the emergency damaged the ship computer's memory banks, had the computer announcing:
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*** But since Holly, the ship's AI, is established to be suffering from computer senility, what Holly would say in a ''real'' emergency would likely be much the same:
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** Yet another episode (''[[
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'''Cat:''' Really?
'''Rimmer:''' No, of course not really. It's a drill. We're pretending that Starbug is on fire and under attack.
'''Lister:''' (Still in bed) And I'm pretending to scramble. }}
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''The Hand of Fear'' used the more Britishly laconic "This is not an exercise!"
** Another story, ''Warriors of the Deep'' only had the computer of an underwater military base tell the crew whether or not it was a drill after they'd gone through the motions which would have launched the [[World War III]] [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] missiles if it was not. Nobody was very surprised that the sync-operator (the guy that did the launching) was under stress.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
** It was also used repeatedly by Data in "11001001" when issuing an order to abandon ship.
** And announced by Spock in at least one Original Series episode, while sirens whoop and the camera rapidly zooms in and pulls back repeatedly on a flashing red light: "Red alert. Red alert. This is no drill. Repeat. This is no drill."
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== Music ==
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "Christmas at Ground Zero":
''The button has been pressed
''The
▲That this is not a test }}
* "Emergency" from the ''Trancemission from Raveland'' compilation: "This is not a test. This is an actual emergency."([[Creepy Monotone]] voice)
== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[Ace Combat]] 5: Unsung War'' -- During an enemy attack
▲{{quote| '''Sailor:''' Two- no, three ships are burning now!<br />
▲'''Traffic control:''' [[Captain Obvious|This is not a drill.]]<br />
'''Sailor:''' Oh, thanks for the heads-up, you idiot! }}
** Featured in any Ace combat featuring a mission where your base starts being bombed by enemy forces.
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* Spoken by Cortana over the intercom at the beginning of the first ''[[Halo]]'' game as the Marines aboard the Pillar of Autumn are mobilizing to defend against Covenant boarding parties.
* The opening cutscene for ''X-Com: Apocalypse'':
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[American Barbarian]]'', [http://www.ambarb.com/?p=60 Yoosamon's first reaction is that he didn't schedule a drill, and the king denies it is one.]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' parodied it way back when they were a short on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. One short has Homer waking the family and herding them into a bomb shelter yelling that "World War Three has begun" and "This is not a drill". When they get to the bomb shelter, he reveals to the viewers that it ''was'' a drill, and chastises his family for taking so long - but they aren't listening due to being rightfully shivering in terror.
** After this happens a couple more times, the family turns the tables on Homer and lock him in the shelter for the night.
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* Spoofed in the ''[[Angry Beavers]]'' Halloween special, where a general scrambling the troops goes "This is not a drill! Repeat, this is not a drill! If it was a drill, I'd be telling you it was, but it's not!"
* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', when firing the [[Wave Motion Gun|Binary Fusion Generator]].
* An episode of ''[[
== Real Life ==
* Qualifies as one of the oldest in the book. It probably dates back to the navies of the 19th Century, when ships became very large and powered by steam. The "black gang" down in the machinery could see and hear nothing of what was going on beyond the hull of the ship.
** The classic historical example of its use is in the alarm siren on December 7, 1941: "AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR THIS IS NO DRILL".
* Oddly enough, the old [https://web.archive.org/web/20111015135000/http://www.ae5d.com/images/EBS-28rzx.png Emergency Broadcast System's script for actual nuclear attack] does not use the phrase "This is not a test".
** It does however use the phrase "Attack warning means that an actual attack against this country has been detected".
* Sometimes, an air-raid siren on the airfield means; 'get to your battle station'. Only some time after you got there will you hear if it was practice, an exercise, or what.
** This was done about twice-weekly for the Strategic Air Command during the [[Cold War]], the instruction being "go to your bombers and wait to see if you're nuking the USSR".
* Then there is the joke: This is not a drill. Repeat, this is
* At the [[World War Two|Samar island engagement]] Capt Evans of the USS ''Johnston'' simply said, "Gentlemen we are going into battle."
* In the modern US Navy, the actual phrases used differ from ship to ship and branch to branch (i.e. surface vs. submarines), and even different
* Subverted... kinda. In the first volume of his war memoir ''Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall'' by comedian [[Spike Milligan]], who was conscripted into the Royal Artillery as a Radio Operator. He quotes extensively from the Regimental War Diary a message about a large invasion force had been spotted in the English Channel heading for Britain was sent by his unit. Shortly after a panicked War Office got in touch asking what steps had been taken and had the Navy been informed... [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity Ensures]] and in the end the CO is ordered to London to clear things up. In his book Milligan confesses that the message had been sent by him as part of a drill but that he had neglected to preface the message with the phrase 'PRACTICE' before he sent it.
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