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.

The Sponsorship Program on MCAS Miramar is provided to inbound and outbound personnel on permanent change of station orders by their prospective command or unit. Personnel requesting a sponsor can fill out NAVMC 11799 and contact their gaining command's sponsor coordinator or MCAS Miramar's Information, Referral & Relocation Specialist prior to their PCS transfer. You can submit or request your Sponsorship Request form NAVMC 11799 via email at: smbmiramarmccs.iandr@usmc.mil. 

Change of address for those living out in the community or military housing requires you to fill out a change of address card before you leave your duty station. If you do not have a forwarding address, you can send your mail to "General Delivery" and address it to San Diego, CA 92145. The Post Office will hold your mail for up to a month. You do, however, have to come in and check your mail every 10 days from the time it was sent or it will be sent back.

Upon your arrival, you can go to the MCAS Miramar Post Office at 45482 Elrod Ave Ste 3., San Diego, CA; 858-307-4578 to pick up your mail or check on it within the 10-day time requirement. For those who will be living in the barracks, check in at the military side of the Post Office upon your arrival with a copy of your orders to be issued a P.O. Box.