Sponsorship

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.

Moving can be a very traumatic experience, at worse extremely challenging at best. Settling into your new location and your new unit takes time. Military Installations and Plan My Move are designed to assist you with information about your new location. Plan My Move and Military Installations have a Sponsorship Program which is very helpful in providing new unit information. If you want to learn how to be a sponsor, you can take a short training module found on MilitaryINSTALLATIONS. If you are a Sponsor you can use the eSponsorship Application & Training a secure website designed to train you on your sponsorship duties and provide sample materials for your use when communicating with the newcomer.

Your gaining unit should assign you a sponsor and send you an electronic sponsor package. Contact and use your sponsor before and during your arrival. He or she probably experienced the same issues you will encounter and can give helpful information about your new base and processing procedures.

If you don't hear from your sponsor within 60 days of your report date, contact your new unit or Airman & Family Readiness Center. Every unit has a combat service support responsible for assigning sponsors and they should be there to assist you.

Your sponsor can request a P.O. Box for you 60 days prior to arrival. They must have a copy of your orders.

Once your gaining organization has received confirmation of your PCS, military and DoD civilians will be assigned a sponsor. If you are experiencing any personnel issues or have not heard from your sponsor, contact the Military and Family Readiness Center at DSN 314-676-6755 or 011-90-322-316-6755. Department of Defense civilians should contact their selecting official or personnel office for a sponsor. Contact the Civilian Personnel Office DSN 314-676-6416 or 011-90-322-316-6416 if you are not contacted by a sponsor.

Your sponsor should provide you with information about the local community, housing, employment, the base and any other information you request. Your sponsor should also provide you with information about your gaining organization including the name of your First Sergeant and Commander. Keep your sponsor informed during your PCS. If your arrival plans change, be sure to contact your sponsor. Your sponsor will be responsible for welcoming you to the base and your organization, and also ensuring you attend the Newcomer's Orientation.

Temporary Quarters

The 24-hour arrival point is the Billeting Office, Building 1081, DSN 314-676-9357. Your sponsor should arrange your billeting, ensure you verify that has been done prior to arriving, Current operations and force protection considerations prompted a decision to direct mandatory use of government transit and permanent housing and billeting accommodations at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. All active duty and DoD employees with an assignment to Incirlik AB are subject to this decision.

If you have not received a base information kit please proceed to the Incirlik Airman and Family Readiness Center SharePoint site to download your information packets at https://usaf.dps.mil/sites/39abw/MSG/FSS/AFRC/Forms/AllItems.aspx?