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From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
FWIW, in my experience, when ARES and RACES both arrive on a scene together, they rarely get into small arms fire over any thing, rather, preferring to work together to help each other set up both repeaters and to coordinate which parts of the workload will be handled by which operation in order to maximize the efficiency with which the job gets done.
Ok; I started this, so I guess I should finish it. I'm sure when the rubber(-duckies) hit the road, everyone gets along fine. I was talking more about political stuff internal to the orgs in some places, WRT interfacing with the officials *before* there are active emergencies. I gather that's a bit dicey and old-boy-ish in at least some locales. Cheers, -- jra