Goodfellow AFB  Base Essentials

To help prepare sponsors for success, the Sponsorship Program provides training and access to important information and resources that can help newcomers master their move. The Sponsorship Program helps sponsors fulfill their responsibilities, which may include:

• Contacting the service member and family with an introductory email
• Staying in contact with the service member throughout the moving process
• Sending information about the new community and duty assignment, responding to questions and providing information about resources
• Confirming transportation and lodging arrangements
• Helping with post office arrangements
• Meeting service members and family members upon arrival
• Going with service members to unit check-in point
• Introducing service members to the Military and Family Support Center and loan closet, if it’s available
• Familiarizing service members and families with the installation and key locations, like the commissary

Note: Responsibilities may vary based on service-specific policies and guidance. Make sure to check with your service branch for sponsor training requirements.

Overall, the Sponsorship Program aims to:

• Provide newcomers with a sense of belonging
• Ease the transition for inbound service members or civilians and their family members
• Increase productivity of service members and loved ones
• Help newcomers make informed decisions
• Cultivate new friendships
• Improve morale

For more information on the Sponsorship Program, contact your installation Military and Family Support Center.

Sponsorship is also available for youth. Installation youth sponsorship programs help military-connected youth make a successful transition to a new community. Primarily directed to preteen and teenaged youth, installation youth programs/centers provide information and materials on programs and services available at their new location. Where available, youth can exchange emails, talk on the phone or chat online with other youth. The youth program staff at your new installation can offer more information on installation youth sponsorship programs.

You can also contact your installation School Liaison Program office for information about school-based youth sponsorship programs such as Anchored4Life and Student2Student. These peer-to-peer programs help your student adjust to and navigate their new school.

If your child would like to become a youth sponsor, contact your installation School Liaison Program or youth program/center.

Families with children may also want to visit Military Kids Connect, an online community for military children and youth. The site offers games, videos and links to teen-led installation tours.

A sponsor will send permanent-party Air Force members information about Goodfellow Air Force Base, answer questions about the base and the area, assist with lodging/dorm arrangements, and meet newcomers upon arrival. A sponsor will help members and their families while they continue to settle into their new community.

The Postal Service Center can be reached at 325-654-3466 or DSN 312-477-3466. Members who will be residing in the base dormitories may request a post office box up to 60 days prior to arrival, or the sponsor can provide a copy of the member's orders to the Postal Service Center. Any member may contact the above number to request that general delivery mail be held until member arrives, or moves off base. Without these prior arrangements, general delivery mail is only held for 15 days. The general delivery address is: General Delivery, Your Name, 161 Nuchols St, Unit 8000, Goodfellow AFB, TX 76908-3321. Post Office hours of operation for mailing are 8 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-4:30 p.m. PSC window hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and mail boxes can be checked anytime.