Flag
Day Communications Drill
On the Thursday nearest to Flag Day, which is always
on June 14th,
we have our Groups of 10 hold “Group of 10” parties at
their Staging
Areas, and we have the walkie- talkers radio in the number of families
participating, just for practice. Some Groups have pot-luck dinners,
and some just have ice cream sandwiches and talk. This helps us to keep
alive the awareness of Groups of 10 and Staging Areas, and it gives us
another chance to practice with our walkie-talkies.
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Annual
Stake Communications Drill
At the end of each October on the Saturday before
Halloween, our
Stake holds a HAM radio communications drill. This is a chance
for us
have all our families practice some aspect of the Neighborhood Plan,
having families send at least one person to their Staging Area to
report or to turn something in to their Captain. We then have our
Walkie-Talkers radio in to Command Central how many families have
participated from each Group of 10. At Command Central we compile
that
information HAM radio it in to the Stake.
Some of the things we have concentrated on for this
drill include:
1) challenging families in advance to have their 72-hr. kits
built or
updated by then and to show up with them at their Staging Areas to show
us all;
2) having families practice filling out the "Family Report to
their
Captain" form and delivering it to their Captain at their Staging Area;
* Doing two activities a year which
involve families going to their Staging Areas and dealing with their
Captains helps them to embed the Neighborhood Emergency Plan into their
memories.