From the ARRL webpage: (www.arrl.org)

Amateur Radio to Have Role in Largest-Ever Mass Casualty Exercise

NEWINGTON, CT, Mar 21, 2005--Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)
members in Connecticut, New Jersey and several other states in the
Northeastern US are preparing to take part in what's being
characterized as the most comprehensive terrorism response exercise
ever conducted in the US. Sponsored by the US Department of Homeland
Security and intended as a realistic test of the nation's homeland
security system, the exercise--TOPOFF 3--gets under way Monday, April
4, and continues through the week.

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As usual...rants derailed by facts.

73

Steve, K4YZ