A two-day emergency exercise including both the
Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) and the ARRL's Amateur Radio Emergency
Service (ARES) is being termed a success, the ARRL Letter reports, especially with
regard to cooperation between the two groups.

The purpose of the
exercise, English said, was to exchange usable information from the local level
to the national level in a crisis, adding that success is possible "only
through … cooperation among MARS and the larger amateur radio community."