Always Stay In Front Of Your Served Agencies

The moral of this story: No matter how many times you talk to your served agencies, that doesn’t mean they will think of you.

You’d think that having gotten happy reports from our last exercise together, a particular agency would have involved us in their next exercise. Sadly, a new hire was brought on board and something fell through the cracks. Now, we are still involved in the exercise—with another agency—but guess who will be getting the Internet test messages we send through Winlink? At least one will go to the person at the other agency who forgot about us, and one to his bosses, too. Just a friendly, “here’s what we’re doing to help” message to an agency that really is our friend.

Not a big deal, but agencies need to realize: No exercise involvement with served agencies is death to our volunteer emcomm programs.