Relocation Assistance

Your Military and Family Support Center provides relocation assistance to help make PCS moves as smooth as possible. Resources include:

• PCS planning: Most relocation assistance programs offer consultations to help you with the moving process. If this your first military move, your first time moving overseas or you have challenging or complex circumstances contact your installation Relocation Assistance Program as soon as possible for support.
• Plan My Move: An online Defense Department relocation tool that provides you with customizable checklists and links to helpful resources for the tasks ahead.
• Military OneSource: A website and call center that offer 24/7 support for moving information and resources. Learn more about PCS basics and download this fact sheet 7 Steps to Make Your Household Goods Move a Smart Move. For comprehensive moving resources and information, including Defense Personal Property log in details, visit Moving Your Personal Property.
• Workshops and briefings: Workshops vary by location. You may find classes on housing options, moving with children, moving with pets and more.
• Predeparture briefings: These sessions provide essential information about your move and may be required for some populations.
• Special needs: If you have a child or family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program, contact your installation EFMP-Family Support office to assist you.
• Settling-in services: Look for welcome programs or local area tours that may offered. Overseas services may include introductory language classes and cultural awareness activities.
• Foreign-born spouse support: Assistance includes information and referral to resources such as immigration and naturalization.
• Emergency assistance: Sometime emergencies occur while moving. The Military and Family Support Center has the resources to provide emergency financial assistance, as well as information and referrals.
• Authorized housing flexibility options: Eligible service members with PCS orders may be entitled to flexibilities such as extended stays in government housing and early housing eligibility. Contact your military personnel office for more information.
• Spouse licensure reimbursement: Your service branch may reimburse spouses up to $1,000 for relicensure and certification costs resulting from relocations or PCS moves. See this Military OneSource article Transferring Your Professional License for more information and specific service branch policies.

Installation Specific Information

Welcome to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Nothing is more important to us at the Military and Family Readiness Center than the well-being and smooth transition of you and your family into or out of the Davis-Monthan/Tucson community and the base. The Relocation Assistance Team at the M&FRC can provide accurate information and many types of assistance to relocating military, Department of Defense civilian employees, retirees and their family members. Some of the assistance available includes inbound and outbound relocation services, relocation planning assistance, internet information, relocation resources, relocation classes as well as sponsorship and seminars. Our goal is to reduce any anxiety or stress associated with making a move.

An integral component at Davis-Monthan is the regularly-scheduled base orientation program Desert Lightning Team Right Start. Spouses are welcome and highly encouraged to attend DLT Right Start which includes an information fair on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of each month. Area agencies attend to answer questions and provide information for new individuals and families. Child care is available on a space available basis and is made possible by Air Force Aid Society funds. Up to 20 hours of child care is available per child for 60 days prior to departure and 60 days after arrival in Family Child Care homes. Families must obtain a voucher from the M&FRC before coordinating care with an FCC provider. To take advantage of the child care program, please report to the M&FRC with a copy of your orders before the day of DLT Right Start.  If childcare is not possible, children are welcome to attend Right Start with their parent(s).

The M&FRC staff offers many useful services for relocated members and their families. The information and referral specialist may refer you to one of the many M&FRC programs, which were developed to meet the needs of the Air Force family. You may also be referred to local agencies on or off base depending on your needs.

If you have not received your sponsor's information, please contact your gaining unit or the installation relocation manager at:  355FSS.FSH.AFRC@us.af.mil or  520-228-5690 or DSN 312-228-5690.