Deployment Support

Langley Deployment Readiness

The Military and Family Readiness Center provides information to increase individual and family readiness and support before, during and after TDY, remote assignments and deployment separations.

The M&FRC provides pre-deployment and reintegration briefings. Our team is available to brief at Commander’s Calls in preparation for deployments as well as serve as a resource on the deployment line. The remote tour briefing has been incorporated into the Plan My Move briefing.  

Our readiness team is here to support your family members while you are deployed. The M&FRC offers Hearts Apart gatherings for spouses and families which serve as a support network.  Be sure to ask about our Readiness Emergency Sleeping Tool.

Eligible deployed families can also take advantage of Give Parents a Break which provides a voucher for five hours of free childcare Members and families can contact the M&FRC at 757-764-3990 for more information.

The M&FRC provides reintegration support to service members and their families. Returning service members must receive a reintegration briefing upon return from deployment.

Fort Eustis Mobilization and Deployment Support

All Army Community Service programs assist deploying troops with a variety of services from information on play groups, coping with stress during the deployment cycle, establishing family finances, and providing extensive resources to assist service members and their families during the deployment cycle and reintegration.

The Mobilization Deployment Program provides training and briefings for all service members and their family members to prepare them with survival techniques and resources available during the deployment cycle.  Training is also provided to Rear Detachment Commanders (RDC), Soldier and Family Readiness Liaisons (SFRL) or Command Family Readiness Representatives (CFRR), and Soldier and Family Readiness Group (SFRG) volunteers to equip and educate them on their roles and responsibilities.  The program also provides bimonthly deployment events to family members to help them cope with the challenges of separation and provide an avenue to network and build connections with other deployed spouses and family members.

The SFRG assist commanders in maintaining readiness of service members, Families and the military community by promoting self-sufficiency, resiliency and stability during peacetime or wartime.

Pre-deployment briefings are provided for service members and for family members. The ACS Mobilization and Deployment Program Manager coordinates with all agency presenters to ensure a quality briefing is implemented.  

The Mobilization and Deployment Program Manager provides materials and other resources to children of deploying service members to prepare them for the deployment cycle.  Behaviors and emotions that children might manifest during the deployment cycle are also discussed in the pre-deployment briefing.

Returning service members receive a reintegration briefing to update them on changes within the installation, local and state laws and to provide assistance during the transitional period of reintegration. Spouses and other Family members may also receive a spouse reintegration briefing to prepare them for potential issues and concerns that may or may not develop during the reintegration process.