USAF Academy  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.

To request a sponsor, contact or call your command support staff at your gaining installation and ask for the sponsorship point of contact. Until you obtain a permanent address at the Academy, your mail may be forwarded to: your name, General Delivery, United States Air Force Academy, CO 80840. Upon arrival, pick up mail at the Postal Service Center in the Community Center, Building 5136. Postal Service Center phone number is 719-472-0537.

If checking in during normal duty hours, contact your sponsor or your CSS. If you are checking in after normal duty hours, please report to our 24-hour arrival point. Our 24-hour arrival point is the Rampart Lodge, 3130 Academy Drive. Their phone number is 719-333-4910 or DSN 312-333-4910. Rampart Lodge is located on the Air Force Academy next to the Falcon Club.

Directions to Rampart Lodge

If arriving from the north on I-25, take exit 156 (the curve is steep) and veer to the right. You will enter the Academy via the north gate on North Gate Boulevard. Stay on North Gate Boulevard for approximately one-quarter mile, then turn left on Stadium Boulevard for one-quarter mile to Academy Drive. Turn right on Academy Drive. Stay on Academy Drive for approximately two miles; after cresting the hill, turn right (the Falcon Club will be on your left), then turn right again; the Rampart Lodge office is to your left.

If arriving from the south on I-25, take exit 150, stay in the far left turn lanes. At the traffic light, turn left. (You are on Stadium Boulevard and the south gate is just ahead.) Stay on Stadium Boulevard for approximately three miles. You will pass the Thunderbird Overlook on your right. Stay on Stadium Boulevard past Falcon Stadium, then turn left onto Academy Drive. Stay on Academy Drive for approximately two miles; after cresting the hill, turn right (the Falcon Club will be on your left), then turn right again; the Rampart Lodge office is to your left.

In-bound DOD civilians should report to Civilian Personnel Office located at 8430 Edgerton Drive, Suite 101. Call the CPO at 719-333-4363 or DSN 312-333-4363.