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- Subject: RB 332:Successful Units 2/3
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- RB 332 MGT Successful RACES Units 2/3
- RELEASE DATE: June 27, 1994
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- This SUCCESSFUL standard came from the County of Orange RACES
- unit via its April '93 newsletter, "NETCONTROL": [rephrased]
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- "Setting requirements of participation and adhering to them,
- including removal of any who fail to participate in most
- activation's and drills, or are inactive. RACES is a reserve
- public safety communications organization that owes the public a
- well-trained and active group. Being untrained or "unpracticed"
- could cost a life during certain types of emergencies and the
- RACES unit cannot afford to take that chance."
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- [Continuing extract:] "It is realized that other commitments
- involving job, family and other matters must be made. If,
- however, those commitments are more important to you than RACES
- and prevent you from full support of required activities, then
- you should not be a RACES member. If you do not put all RACES
- drills and scheduled activation's on your calendar, you should
- not be a RACES member. If you put scheduled RACES activities on
- your SOCIAL calendar, to be at a lower priority than activities
- on your "important stuff" calendar, you should not be a RACES
- member. RACES is NOT a social activity (even though association
- with fellow RACES members is enjoyed by many of us more than with
- anyone else). RACES is a commitment to provide the very best in
- government-supporting (sometimes life-saving) communications,
- through continuous practice (by drills and reporting to all
- activation's) and efforts toward improving ourselves and each
- other technically and operationally."
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- While this is a painful procedure, it is better to have an active
- unit of 3 trained and dedicated participants than one with 13
- untrained who are not familiar with the agency and are not
- dedicated to the unit purpose. In other words, let the luke-warm
- migrate to luke-warm efforts; keep only those who realize they
- made a serious commitment to the agency they signed up to
- support, and who are willing to show they can be relied on
- whenever that agency needs them.
- EOM
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