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

  • Recovery, resiliency: Two steps forward, two steps back

    Two steps forward, two steps backPeltonen graduated from the ADAPT program after six months and thought at that point, everything was better. He believed he now had the tools and could drink responsibly – but that wasn’t the case. Although not immediately, he soon fell back into his daily drinking

  • Combat Forces Command Leaders Spotlight Readiness and Resilience

    At the Space Force Association’s Spacepower Conference 2025, leaders from the U.S. Space Force’s Combat Forces Command (CFC) underscored their mission to build resilient, combat-ready space forces. The fireside chat highlighted how CFC is shaping the future of space warfighting by strengthening

  • Strength from across the ocean: 100 LRS Airman shares story

    Airman 1st Class Charlyze Cuffie, a material management journeyman with the 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron, carries more than equipment and supplies; she holds her mother, Lisa Cuffie’s strength, even from across the ocean.

  • Aviano AB launches a new dorm wellness room

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing listen to opening remarks during a dorm wellness room ribbon cutting ceremony at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Nov. 26, 2025. Aviano AB’s first ever dorm wellness room introduces an innovative, on-campus space, designed to give Airmen immediate

  • Voices of Impact: Prevention Coordination Specialist

    As a Prevention Coordination Specialist, Dr. Frederica Norman plays a critical role in strengthening resilience and readiness across the Shaw community. Her work focuses on developing prevention programs tailored to the unique challenges military members and their families face, including suicide

  • Ready

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 633d Air Base Wing showcased Air Combat Command's "Together We Can" mindset during a video production at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Sept. 4, 2025. As a part of a suicide awareness campaign, the project emphasized the importance of unity, highlighting

  • One in a million: Twin sisters serving together at Travis AFB

    Family members serving simultaneously in the military is rare, but even more uncommon is two siblings, twins, serving together in the same active-duty branch, with the same rank, at the same base. At Travis Air Force Base, California, this rarity became a reality for Capt. Chloe Forlini and Capt.

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