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.

Sponsors are provided for permanent duty personnel, sponsors are not provided for students.

If on Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders contact the gaining command for sponsor assignment.  Sponsors are not required to meet incoming personnel until reaching the gaining command. 

For a specific command phone number, contact the Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) at 850-452-5990 ext. 0.

NAS Pensacola will no longer mail out Welcome Aboard Packages.  A Welcome Aboard Package is available by contacting a sponsor. An electronic Welcome Aboard Package is also available by e-mailing the Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) at naspffsc@navy.mil, or in hand by visiting the NAS Pensacola FFSC Relocation Office, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

NATTC

Please contact NATTC Sponsor Coordinator, at 850-452-7022/5859 for directions to the proper school from there.

Youth Sponsorship

The Youth Sponsorship Program for NAS Pensacola and Corry Station is called "Anchored for Life."   Children in the military community at NAS Pensacola and Corry Station have volunteered to sponsor other military/Department of Defense children coming into the local area. All have been trained and have been certified as youth sponsors. For more information, or for a youth sponsor contact the NAS Pensacola School Liaison, 850-458-6588 or Youth Centers at 850-452-2296 or https://anchored4life.com/.