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- From : W6HIR @ WA6NWE.#NOCAL.CA.USA
- To : RACES @ ALLUS
- Msgid : $RACESBUL.171
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- 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
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- 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.
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- (To be continued)
- EOM
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