Family Support and Deployment Information

Department of Defense Joint Readiness for Service
Members, Families, Parents, Spouses and Children

• Angel Flight for Veterans provides no-cost or greatly reduced rate, long-distance charitable medical transportation/travel for patients who need to travel to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment.

• Armed Forces Network : Military Guide : Military News and Magazines

• Army announces deployment cycles; most Iraq rotations will be yearlong - Stars & Stripes

• Celebrating Military Families

• Child Support Military Deployment Information

• Coping With The War - America At War: Helping Families and Children Cope (University of Kentucky)

• Central Command Rest & Recuperation Leave Program - Central Command

• DAOD 5044-3, Deployment Support Groups

• Dealing with World Conflicts

• Dept. of Defense, Deployment Health Clinical Center  (Dept. of Defense, Deployment Health Clinical Center)

• Deployed Military Family Support

• Deployment and Family Separation: An Annotated Bibliography - This research report contains brief descriptions of 66 studies, most of which were conducted during the past 20 years, on deployment and family separation.

• Deployment Center at Military.com

• Deployment comments under investigation - Stars & Stripes

• Deployment Information Support System

• Deployment Information ~Submarine Wives Club

• DeploymentLink

• Deployment News - Department of Defense (DoD) Post-Deployment Health

• Deployment Tough On Marriages–More Spouse Support Needed

• Disabled Soldier Support System

• DoD News: New Deployment Health Care Guideline Announced

• Families Coping with Traumatic Events - Family Information Services

• Fathers On Rights for Custody Equality : Custody Issues : Military Deployment

• Family Forum: Introductory Pak - All 18 Military Family Forum Booklets

• Family Support, Deployment and Military Benefits Programs - Military and Civilian Spouses' Club

• First Large-Scale Entertainment Tour to the Persian Gulf Region Since Operation Iraqi Freedom - USO

• Freedom Calls Foundation - mission is to deploy state of the art Wi-Fi, VOIP, Video Conferencing and Satcom technology to enable our troops to communicate without charge from their base camps with their families at home by internet telephone, instant messaging and video conference.

• Help with Deployment-Related Travel - DOD

• Homes for our Troops - mission is to build specially adapted homes for our severely disabled soldiers and their families.

• Hotlines and Family Support Information Contact Numbers - This one-page PDF files contains contact information and a general overview of the family support offerings of several military organizations. - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• Important Information for Active Duty Military Students

• Iraq Facilities - As of early 2004 US occupation forces appeared to be deployed at approximately 50 locations in Iraq. - globalsecurity.org

• Lawmakers line up to aid veterans - Shows states in which legislatures have introduced and passed laws to aid military families. - USA TODAY

• Let's Bring Em Home - purchases plane tickets for junior enlisted military personnel, allowing them the opportunity to fly home and spend the holidays with their families.

• Lionheart Creations - honoring the fallen and POW's in operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraqi war with canvas portraits.

• Marine Comfort Quilts - making Comfort Quilts for the next of kin of all soldiers lost overseas in Operation Iraqi Freedom, regardless of which branch of the Armed Forces they served.

• Marine Corps Community Services

• Marine Moms: Overview and Information on Deployment - www.MarineMoms.us

• Military Child Education Coalition | Deployment Information and Links

• Military Children and Youth

• Military Connection - Government jobs, up-to-date information on military schools, federal jobs, as well as military loans and military pay at Military Connection.com. Our online directory of resources and information feature vital information on military education and benefits including the GI Bill, employment opportunities, the latest military job postings, pay charts and salary calculators. Don't wait any longer, search through our directory for government, federal jobs and civilian employment opportunities today!

• Military Deployment Center

• Military Deployment - Coping with Separation

• Military Deployment Information

• Military Deployment--News

• Military Deployment Policies

• Military Deployments Strain Families

• Military Family Programs - Texas A&M University

• Military Family Resource Center

• Military families should prepare for deployment separation

• Military Funeral Honors

• Military Mobilization - Operation Enduring Freedom

• Military Parent Support and Information

• Military Partners

• MilitaryPetsFOSTER Project - A NationWide network of Individual Foster Homes that will house, nurture and care for the dogs, cats*, birds and other pets for all the Military and other personnel Only. (Foster: to give temporary nurture, care and shelter.)

• Military Deployment Prayer List

• Military Spouse Business Network - Supporting the armed forces and their families

• Mothers of Military Support - is a non-profit organization who's sole goal is to  support our troops and their families during deployment.

• National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• National Military Family Association

• News: Deployment Issues

• Nonprofit Group To Build Homes for Disabled Troops

• Operation Gold Star Flag - is a mission to give a Gold Star Service Flag to the family of each service member who died while serving on active duty since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom and continuing in the future during times of war and peace.

• The "Operation Purple" Camp Experience -National Military Family Association, Inc.

• Post-deployment tough on families - Chaplains offer help after return - The Bayonet

• Readjustment, reconnecting after deployment

• Responding to Tragedy: An Annotated List of Web Sites—Military Deployment

• Return & Reunion

• Supporting Children of Deployed Military Parents (PDF)
  This document lists several specific tips and techniques for helping children deal with parental absence due to deployment. - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• Talking to Children about Tragedy

• Talking With Children About War (University of Illinois)

• Talking With Children - Parents Must Interpret War Talk for Their Children (University of Illinois)

• Tax Information for Members of the U.S. Armed Forces

• The Emotional Cycle of Deployment: A Military Family Perspective

• The Impact of Dangerous Work on Military Families - Healthy Parenting Initiative

• Tips Given on Coping with Different Aspects of Military Deployment

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  Tips: Readjusting your family after a deployment - HamptonRoads.com

  Troops welcome deployment definitiveness - Stars & Stripes

• U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

• U.S. Army FAQ

• U.S. Army HOOAH 4 HEALTH Deployment Guide - Outside Deployment Links

• U.S. Military Operations

• Veterans News and Information Service

• Welcome to PDHealth.mil

• West Virginia Flag Cases - providing a case of choice to the spouse of a married, or the parents of a single service member killed in the line of duty since October 1, 2001.

• When Loved Ones in the Military are Deployed - Magellan Behavioral Health, Inc

Prepaid Phone Cards

To purchase prepaid calling cards, log on to any of the the sites below.

• The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, http://www.aafes.com/.
• The Navy Exchange Service, http://www.navy-nex.com/.
• The Marine Corps Exchange Service, usmc-mccs.org.
• The “Gift of Groceries” program allows anyone to buy commissary gift certificates at http://www.commissaries.com/.
• Exchange gift certificates may be purchased at http://www.aafes.com/ or http://www.navy-nex.com/.

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Documents - PDF - MS Word

• 20 Hour Military Waiver Information - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• Coming Home (Service Members). A guide for personnel returning from mobilization/deployment. - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• Coming Home (Spouses). A guide for spouses of service members returning from mobilization/deployment. - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• Coming Home (Family & Friends). A guide for parents, extended family members or friends of service members returning from mobilization/deployment. - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• Coping with Coping with Emotional Emotional Aspects of Aspects of Military Military Deployment Deployment - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• ISMIS: A Military Transportation Decision-Support Framework - (Adobe Acrobat Required)

• Military Funeral Honors. This Web site provides the general public with information on military funeral honors, as well as helpful links to related military and veterans issues Web sites.

• Military Family Resource Center

• Military Funeral Support

• Military Personnel Casualty Matters, Policies and Procedures

• Mortuary Policy

• National Cemetery Administration. Department of Veterans Affairs, this site provides information about burial, national and military cemeteries, military honors, and VA burial benefits.

• National Military Family Association

• The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc. (TAPS) is a national non-profit organization made up of, and providing services to, all those who have lost a loved one while serving in the Armed Forces.

• United Services Organization (USO) will assist the families of military casualties in arranging transportation and finding low-cost lodging.