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Services to the Armed Forces |
Client Survey Form
Message Request
Form
Around the
clock and around the globe, during times of personal crisis, we keep people in touch with their family members serving in the United States
military.
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Services to the Armed Forces (SAF) reporting and communication is a
MUST service and is provided by the American Red Cross 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week. Communications are strictly Red Cross to Red
Cross, and messages are released from the chapter to the National Messaging
Center in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma or back to the chapter in which they
originated. All Red Cross communications are confidential. |
Any individual may request service on behalf of the following:
- Active Duty Member (USA, USN, USMC, USAF, USCG)
- Commissioned Corps of US Public Health Service
- Immediate family member of active duty member or spouse
- Grandparent of active duty member or spouse
- Service member's fiancé
- Undeclared family member (i.e. mother of service child)
- Reservist or National Guard member
- Red Cross Personnel
- US citizens employed/attached to US Armed Forces outside of US (DOD)
- Military retiree
- Cadet or midshipman of the service academies
- Military hospital patient
- Merchant seamen
- Enrollees of Job Corp program
- National Civilian Community Corps
Information that is included in all messages:
- Complete military identification (full name, rank/rate, and Social
Security number) and address of the service member
- Full name of individual concerned and relationship to the service member
- Telephone numbers of service member or family member
- Nature of the situation - whether the service member or family member is
aware of the situation - and what specific action or service is requested
- Additional information to assist the Red Cross worker to service the case,
including what their service member or family has done about any specific
problems and what each can do.
- If locator service is needed, include as much information as you can
gather (Date of birth, enlistment date, last known military address, parents'
full names)
TYPES OF MESSAGES:
Messages regarding emergency leave and extension of leave for emergency
purposes.
Messages regarding personal/family situations:
- Illness, injury, or other emergencies
- Death
- Financial support
- "Call Home"
- Requests for Authorization to perform surgery/autopsy
Messages regarding births.
Messages regarding dependency or hardship discharge, humanitarian
reassignment, deferment from overseas service, and deferment of reservists from
active duty military service.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BECOMING A VOLUNTEER SAF
CASEWORKER, CLICK HERE.
If you need this service provided by your American Red Cross, please call
(334) 260-3980, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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