MILITARY AND FAMILY READINESS

Military and Family Readiness is a network of programs and services operated by the Defense Department and other federal, state, and community-based agencies and organizations. The Military Family Readiness System promotes military family well-being by offering programs and services that enhance family readiness and quality of life. Collaboration and integration across the system promotes positive outcomes for service members and their families across the domains of military family readiness, including career, social, financial health and community engagement.

The Military Family Readiness System supports every service member and family member, regardless of activation status or location, in person, by phone and online. To locate your nearest center, please go to the Military and Family Center Locator.

For more information on services we provide, please select from one of the buttons below.  

Military and Family Readiness Services

Family Support

Child and Youth Programs The Department of the Air Force Child and Youth Programs assist military and civilian personnel in balancing the competing demands of the mission and family life by catering programs and services for eligible children and youth from birth through 18 years of age.

Spouse State Licensure Moving across state lines creates barriers to career longevity, and those obstacles are heightened by state and career-specific professional license regulations. Licensure portability refers to the ability to transfer a professional license from one state or U.S. jurisdiction to another so that a professional can continue their occupation after relocation.

Spouse Employment Fact Sheet Accelerating the development of interstate compacts to support professional license reciprocity for Military Spouses. 

Commissary Fact Sheet We are changing the commissary funding model to ensure the Defense Commissary Agency can provide the greatest savings possible to patrons. This action cuts grocery prices at the register to achieve at least 25% savings for commissary patrons.

Moving Fact Sheet The Military OneSource PCS & Military Moves page connects service members and their families to everything they need to master PCS moves, from making a move request to getting support for all areas of their move. 

Dislocation Allowance Fact Sheet Dislocation Allowance is a single payment intended to cover the cost service members incur when relocating their household for a PCS move. 

Expanded Military Parental Leave The Expanded Military Parental Leave Program builds on the Defense Department’s support of military families by streamlining and enhancing parental leave.

MILITARY AND FAMILY NEWS

  • Family Care Plan: Reserve Citizen Airmen need to be ready

    Deployments can put a strain on family life. For many Airmen, a Family Care Plan provides a roadmap for taking care of their dependents and eases the transition. The 307th Force Support Squadron offered a Family Care Plan Roadshow here Jan. 9, providing an opportunity for Airmen to update or create

  • AFMC Connect January focus: Purpose

    Each member of the Air Force Materiel Command team can be armed with a purpose in support of the Air Force and its mission to fly, fight and win. The AFMC Connect focus for January is purpose.

  • Children's Christmas Party

    Santa Clause waves to the crowd after taxiing in on an F-15 Eagle at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon Dec. 5, 2021. Santa made a special appearance at the annual Children's Christmas party held at the base. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Emily Copeland)

  • 75 years and counting

    FAIRBORN, Ohio -- Boy Scout Troop 162 marked its 75th anniversary Dec. 13 with a court of honor and dinner in Fairborn.While the troop is sponsored by, and meets at, Abiding Christ Lutheran Church, it started life in 1946 as the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base troop, chartered by the Wright-Patt

  • Service members choose resiliency at ASAB

    Service members from the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing gathered to speak about suicide prevention awareness during a seminar with helping agencies across the base.

  • Thyme to spread happiness

    The Community Action Team, made up of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office, the Health Promotion office, and the Community Support Coordinator, began planting in hopes to bring some extra positivity to base as the installation goes through a massive rebuild.

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