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Deployment Support

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  • Air Force

    Personal and Family Readiness

    4 W. Castle Street

    Building 2365

    Fairchild AFB, WA 99011

    COMM phone number for Fairchild AFB Personal and Family Readiness

    509-247-2246

    FAX phone number for Fairchild AFB Personal and Family Readiness

    509-247-5099

    DSN phone number for Fairchild AFB Personal and Family Readiness

    312-657-2246

    DSNFAX phone number for Fairchild AFB Personal and Family Readiness

    312-657-5099

    Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri – 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Thur 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Sat and Sun – closed Holidays – closed
    MAPMap: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=+4+W%2E+Castle+Street,+Building+2365,+Fairchild+AFB+WA+99011

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Deployment Support Overview

Deployment can be a challenging phase of the military lifecycle, but it’s important to know that you don’t have to go through it alone. The military provides a variety of resources and support programs — ranging from educational briefings to morale calls — for your loved ones, children and service members to ease the stress of deployment. Military members may be assigned to a specific installation but support may come from local communities, Yellow Ribbon events or the installation itself.

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Everyone experiences family separations due to military necessity. The Military and Family Readiness Center and other base agencies provide mobility and deployment assistance to members and their families to meet pre-deployment, sustainment and post-deployment challenges. Services and activities help prepare members and their families to successfully manage separation and reintegration, increase individual and family morale, unit cohesion, and support operational readiness.

  • Pre-deployment readiness briefings – face to face meeting scheduled by UDM
  • Reintegration briefings – face to face meeting by appointment only
  • Deployed Family Information Fairs – Face to face pre-deployment briefings for family members to get accurate and timely information to plan and prepare. Occurs monthly; RSVP at 509-247-2246
  • Information, literature and individual and family counseling for pre-deployment, sustainment and post-deployment
  • Informational booklets, coloring books, resources for children
  • Give Parents A Break Certificates
  • Deployment Child Care – Before, during, and after deployment (provided by Family Child Care Program – 509-247-5336)
  • United Through Reading – by appointment only
  • Flat Daddy/Flat Mommy – provided by the American Red Cross – email POC to coordinate
  • Red Cross Deployment and Reconnection Workshops – provided by redcross.org
  • Free high-speed internet service in the Discovery Center
  • Unit Key Spouse program – spouse-to-spouse support during deployment and throughout your tour at Fairchild Air Force Base

Family members who are relocating to Fairchild AFB and the local area while their sponsor is deployed, on temporary duty assignment or on a remote assignment are eligible to receive these and many more services on base. All family members should check in with the M&FRC. Team Fairchild will ensure that you are cared for.