This document defines the minimum set of skills needed to support the deployment of Pinellas County (PinCo) Auxiliary Communication Service (ACS) volunteers during an exercise or activation event. The document provides detailed steps that should be followed during training nets, drills, and exercises to demonstrate proficiency with each communicator skill.

Although this document describes the skills, rationale, and training approach that will be used to qualify PinCo ACS communicators, it does not provide the step-by-step information needed to install and configure the applicable computer programs or a description of the steps needed to perform the identified tasks.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.