The primary mission of MCARES is to provide dedicated volunteer federally licensed amateur radio operators to governmental, non-governmental and community agencies during times of emergency and disasters thereby increasing safety for and expediting the recovery process of the affected agencies and communities. This is accomplished in part through the training of ARES volunteers in communications procedures, national operational structures as required by FEMA (NIMS, ICS, etc.) and the development of the technical skills necessary to complete their communications missions under a variety of situations including possibly adverse communications conditions.