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From : W6HIR @ WA6NWE.#NOCAL.CA.USA
To : RACES @ ALLUS
Msgid : $RACESBUL.171
TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)427-4281
RACESBUL.171 DATE: May 27, 1991
SUBJECT: "Falling Overboard" Part 3/5
As Amateur Radio operators who think yourselves capable
communicators, many of you will volunteer when disaster strikes.
I must tell you that in my experience you will be disappointed in
your performance unless you train as an emergency radio operator.
Without that needed disaster and team training you will not
perform up to your expectations. The reason for your
disappointment will be a physical one, one that training can
minimize. It is that unexpected physical reaction to stress and
sudden disaster that all experience -- astronauts as well as
Amateur Radio operators. Astronauts train and train in order to
make the time between the shock of the unexpected and the later
recovery to trained action as short as possible. Firemen,
policemen, and paramedics are so highly trained that after
they've been years in their services they forget what their early
days were like. They have shortened that gap between the
unexpected incident and the trained reaction to become almost
unnoticeable. One of the reasons for volunteers needing to shorten
this momentary gap between shock and reasoned or trained
reaction is that the body recovers ahead of the mind.
Therefore, the body will react in senseless ways immediately
after, unless the mind is trained to reason instantaneous
control and to order the body to take trained action.
(To be continued)
EOM