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the thalmus gland thing might work but the disabling the brain wouldn't unless you had a zombie to try it on. In some versions of lore the brain is mutated to make the zombie completely self sufficient. They dont NEED to eat they just feel the need to. but youd have to test it to make sure

Or shot. You assume theyll welcome you with open arms. In the beginning theyll have no frigging clue as to how its spread and will likely shoot on site.


but thats if your lucky. it could be that the nearest base is blood bath city because everyone else had the same idea and people were infected and the ripple effect ensued

true. but in a time of crisis when every person is at their worst would you really want to trust your life to hundreds that you dont know?

World War Z talked about the military and their reaction to a zombie outbreak. I think the way it was treated would be accurate.
Large, conventional militaries will, by and large, get decimated by a zombie outbreak. They're laid out in ways that are effective for dealing with conventional warfare, but deal poorly with non-conventional warfare (there are real-world examples to be seen of this everywhere you look).
In the case of the United States military, during domestic peacetime (which is nearly all the time), the command chain is very long with largely ineffective leaders at the bottom. During the initial chaos of this sort of event, bases will end up locking down. They won't be accepting (or protecting) civilians who aren't already on the base or who aren't smuggled in by service members.
Guns will be placed at the gates. Once they figure out that whatever they're dealing with can't be reasoned with, they'll pretty much shoot anything that approaches the gate.
Some bases include hospital facilities. These bases will be overrun internally because there are only a small subset of areas inside a base that are guarded by armed personnel. Most base security is not armed, and it's based on a hard shell exterior.
A *few* bases will remain intact, and once information gets around about the nature of the outbreak, it'll be too late for you to get to them. HOWEVER, they will likely mount rescue operations by airlift.

Now, the NON-conventional/special operations groups, on the other hand, are used to dealing with all sorts of messed up, uncertain situations. They're trained to avoid detection and to live on what's available. Additionally, their leadership is used to making difficult decisions with unclear data available, and they'll likely get organized and moving quicker than the rest of the conventional military. Unfortunately, it's not like there are a ton of these units running around.

Don't count on your military. At first their first priority won't be to save you, and by the time they figure out what's going on, most of the military will be gone, and you'll probably be pretty well screwed already.

Most of my post was actually speaking from personal experience, having served in the United States Navy for six years, and having been stationed at Army and Navy bases. I know how they do things.
Having served in the military, I can tell you, I wasn't trained to protect anyone. In fact, I was trained to look at people I didn't know with suspicion. I'm looking for it now, but there was a series of rules I had to learn about standing watch in boot camp; one of them had to do with challenging anyone approaching my station.
However, you might have better luck with the National Guard. They tend to be more focused on domestic defense.
The things I can tell you with near certainty:
* Commanding Officers tend to be both proactive and paranoid. They will close a base down tight at any sign of emergency.
* The majority (probably around 98%) of military units do not have the term "save" or "protect" in their mission statement. Most of them will view their first priority to be to ensure the continued functioning of their areas of responsibility (the security of the bases, etc). They may take action once things start falling apart to intervene in the areas outside their ownership, but it'll be limited.
* It's highly likely that, as the horror of what's going on sets in, mass desertion will occur as service members rush to save their friends and family.
* Guards set at base gates are not normally armed with anything other than a nightstick. For this reason, I think the contagion has a high probability of entering bases early on. I don't know how long it would take, but those bases not overrun would eventually post guns.
* Many bases also have hospitals that treat both service members and their families. These bases are probably goners.
* Most bases are large, and have little more than a chain-link fence with barbed wire surrounding them. Guards are posted at the gates, and military police (who DO have guns) patrol the fence every once in a while. This is great for stopping individuals who would break in. It's not so great for stopping a horde.
That said, I suspect that, of the branches, both the Army and the Air Force would suffer the worst. The Navy has a standing policy that if a base is under attack, all ships go to general quarters and get underway. I suspect that a great many ships would get away with their basic skeleton crews to run them, but then be unable to help anyone.
I doubt you'd see nuclear discharge. You'd pretty much have to level the entire nation.

Ff attacking specific parts of the brain doesn't work then you aren't dealing with mutation zombies, you're dealing with magic zombies.
In which case you carry a bag of Goofa Dust on you and you be sure to nail it back into it's coffin with a Silver Stake

Everyone says Evil Dead is zombies, but the impression I got was demons. Maybe in Army of Darkness, the skeletons could be considered zombies I guess. In the sense that they are reanimated bodies, yes they're zombies. But it's not so much the body doing anything as it is the demon controlling the body.

ROTD zombies: No one ever tried completely destroying the brain in those movies, most they did was cutting off heads and shooting. What if you smashed the head to a pulp? Easier than complete incineration. UNLESS YOU WANNA RAVE FROM THE GRAVE.

@Zahwomen: Yes, let me waste time trying to find specific parts of the brain to hit on each zombie when there's a whole ******** swarm of them on my tail. Great idea.