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

  • Generations of Service

    The Air Force is all about family, but one family will find that McConnell Air Force Base brought them closer than they ever thought possible.

  • Unity Bridge: A symbol of strength, support and resiliency

    OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. - In recent weeks and months, the Air National Guard and members of the 102nd Intelligence Wing have put extra emphasis on resiliency, wellness and suicide prevention within our community. As part of that effort, 102nd IW Airmen and Family Readiness Yellow Ribbon

  • Eleventh Air Force holds senior enlisted leaders workshop

    More than 40 senior enlisted leaders and civilians from across the Eleventh Air Force attended a two-day workshop centered around group discussions of best practices and strategies focused on resiliency at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Nov. 6 and 7, 2019.

  • 4th Air Force leadership visits 911th Airlift Wing

    Maj. Gen. Randall Ogden, 4th Air Force commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Cynthia Villa, 4th Air Force command chief, visited Airmen of the 911th Airlift Wing at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, Nov. 1-4, 2019.

  • Airmen find resiliency through fitness

    Every uniformed member of our nation’s military understands the importance of physical training and how it correlates to accomplishing the mission of national defense, but for one squadron, PT is being used to achieve more than just a good PT test score.

  • Airfield Airmen "Arrest" Aircraft

    The 786th Civil Engineer Squadron boosted its readiness with Armed Forces personnel from NATO partners Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in an annual conference on Ramstein Air Base from Nov. 4 through the 8.

  • Fit to Fight: Incirlik Airmen roll with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christian Brancato, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach, flips Senior Airman Steven Nadeau, a student, during a class Nov. 7, 2019, at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. The free class is conducted by Airmen who volunteer to teach as BJJ coaches, and is available for all Airmen stationed

  • Team Mildenhall Airman relives path to citizenship

    The story of the American immigrant is one that many may hear about from grandparents and great grandparents, but this is a story of today, of determination and resilience. Buzhak traveled from her birth place not to leave a war-ridden country or to escape poverty, but simply to see a different,

  • Alamo Wing pauses for resiliency

    The 433rd Airlift Wing participated in a “Resilience Tactical Pause” here Nov. 3.More than 1500 Alamo Wing enlisted, officer, and civilian members arrived to the Air Force Basic Military Training’s Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training site at the Medina Annex on the morning of a bright and

  • The Lighthouse; guiding young Airmen to hope

    The official opening and ribbon-cutting of the Lighthouse was held in Larcher Chapel, here, Nov. 1.The Lighthouse is a part of the Larcher Chapel where permanent party Airmen, airman basic to senior airmen, can interact and build connections with one another.“We chose the name ‘The Lighthouse’