Joint Region Marianas - Andersen 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.

It is strongly recommended that every individual or family reporting to Andersen Air Force Base have a sponsor. Although Guam has many of the amenities associated with a stateside tour there is no substitute for having contact with an individual on-island who has first hand knowledge and who also has a personal interest in your well-being. Andersen Air Force Base is quite proud of its sponsor program. You can make a request for a sponsor through your orderly room. Please coordinate with your sponsor or unit reps regarding arrival to Guam, landing, health guidelines and day-to-day life etc.

If you require assistance with sponsorship, call the Military and Family Readiness Center at 671-366-8136 or DSN 315-366-8136. If you are arriving unaccompanied the Postal Service Center will assign a permanent PSC box to you at your sponsor's request with a copy of your orders. If you will be accompanied your sponsor with your orders can get you a temporary General Delivery address for up to 30 days prior to your report no later than date and up to 30 days after your report no later than date after which the U.S. Postal Service not the PSC will take care of your mail. The Postal Service Center is located in Building 24018 adjacent to the base exchange.