1. DIALOGUE: Establish a positive continuous dialogue. Ensure your staff interfaces with their community counterparts one on one and provides feedback to you. 2. INVOLVEMENT: Encourage your staff to participate in Community Planning & Zoning Commissions, Boards of Adjustment, Neighborhood Boards, local outreach initiatives, etc. 3. INFORM: Don’t surprise community leaders in a public forum. Advise community leaders prior to any public announcement or formal response. Allow sufficient time for them to draft an appropriate response. Provide explanations to maintain credibility and open lines of communication. 4. ANTI-TERRORISM/FORCE PROTECTION (AT/FP). Force Protection issues bring some challenging aspects associated with Community Involvement. AT/FP issues tend to work against openness and active engagement with the local community, which they may not understand. AT/FP may also affect access to military facilities. You cannot hide behind AT/FP classification aspects, and must seek a balance. 5. EDUCATE: Determine who in the community needs what information. Ensure the community knows the mission of the activity, its chain of command, and how decisions are made and by whom. Stress differences between simulators and live training and testing. Examples — 16 year old learning how to drive in a simulator and then turned loose on Los Angeles freeways or buying an experimental car that hasn’t been tested. 6. COMMITMENT: If the activity makes a commitment to the community, ensure you follow through. 7. DATA: When providing data to the community, the activity must ensure it is: a. Accurate and timely, including any limits and restrictions. b. Presented in a manner that the community understands — no acronyms. c. Focused on the positive aspects but does not hide or ignore negative information. d. Complete. Include economic input for Reserves and retirees. Incorporate your activity’s entire sphere of influence. 8. BENEFITS: Provide good news stories about the activity and its community support. 9. ECONOMIC IMPACT: Describe your activity’s economic contribution to its sphere of influence and compare it to other industries and businesses. 10. STEWARDSHIP: Discuss the actions your activity takes to improve the environment such as endangered species protection, energy conservation, recycling, and pollution control actions. 11. VOLUNTEERISM: Address the community service actions your activity’s personnel are engaged in: mentoring actions in local schools, local cleanup efforts, etc. 12. MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: Publicize to the local community the various support your activity provides to civilian agencies, i.e., fire fighting, local police using military small arms ranges, search and rescue efforts, explosive ordnance disposal, disaster recovery, etc.

US Resident or Citizen, Ages 17-35 (36-38 years of age may be accepted), High School Diploma or GED, No face tattoos (some neck and hand tattoos are accepted), Legal and medical issues are case by case

(1) Successfully pass an aptitude test, (2) Pass a medical screening, (3) Select your career field, (4) Negotiate your contract