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.

Personnel reporting to Naval Air Station Whiting Field may contact the Command Sponsor Coordinator at 850-623-7761 or DSN 312-868-7761 for sponsorship information, including obtaining a Welcome Aboard Packet. Personnel reporting to Training Air Wing 5 as a Flight Student may contact TRW-5 Student Services at 850-623-7058. Flight Instructors and TRW-5 staff personnel may contact TRW-5 administrative department at 850-623-7704 or DSN 312-868-7704.

If checking in during normal working hours Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. report to the Administrative Department in Building 1401.

If you have any questions or require assistance, you are encouraged to contact our FFSC at DSN 312-868-7177 or 850-623-7177. After hours inquiries may be made to the NAS Whiting Field's "After Hours Automated Answering System" at DSN 312-868-7762/7770 or 850-623-7762/7770.

NAS Whiting Field does not have a U.S. Post Office but there is a mail Room that handles all incoming and outgoing mail. The Mail Room will not hold or store mail for a Servicemember that has not checked in. Servicemembers should not forward mail to the Command until they have checked in.