MARS
Mission Statement
- Provide Department of Defense sponsored emergency
communications on a local, national, and international basis as an adjunct
to normal communications.
- Provide auxiliary communications for military, civil,
and/or disaster officials during periods of emergency.
- Assist in effecting normal communications under
emergency conditions.
- Create interest, and furnish a means of training
members in military communications procedures.
- Provide a potential reserve of trained radio
communications personnel.
- Handle moral and quasi-official record and voice
communications traffic for Armed Forces and authorized U.S. Government
civilian personnel stationed throughout the world.
- Conduct an appropriate Amateur Radio program as a
part of the annual celebration of Armed Forces Day.