Bid: $RACESBUL.332
Subject: RB 332 MGT Successful RACES Units 2/3


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RB 332 MGT Successful RACES Units 2/3
RELEASE DATE:   June 27, 1994

This SUCCESSFUL standard came from the County of Orange RACES
unit via its April '93 newsletter, "NETCONTROL": [rephrased]

"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."

[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."

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