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.

Portland Recruiting Battalion has two S-1 Personnel locations: one in the continental United States with the other in Honolulu, HI serving the Pacific (OCONUS). Recruiters will be in uniform.

They will bring with them:

• A copy of their last evaluation
• DD Form 93/Servicemen's Group Life Insurance election 
• Certificate of training and assignment orders 

They will also bring any copies of financial documents like advanced pay or any Do-it-Yourself Move documents including weight tickets, receipts or maintenance costs.

Incoming personnel will contact the Battalion Headquarters S-1 at 503-256-2215 or Honolulu Company at 808-541-1626. Recruiters will have received a tentative pin-point assignment. At that time, they will be assigned a station sponsor. The Battalion S-1 makes every effort to be sure that the Soldier and Family Assistance Manager receives this address as well. 

To obtain a sponsor you may either call the recruiting station assigned or the Battalion S-1 for a personal name and telephone number. Mail may be forwarded to the Battalion or Company Headquarters (See Table of Locations).

The S-1 for recruiters stationed within CONUS for intake is the Battalion Headquarters located at 1220 SW 3rd Ave. Suite 560 Portland, OR 97204. They can be contacted by phone at 503-256-2215. 

Recruiters assigned to stations in the Honolulu Company or Guam Detachments will report to their projected recruiting station to in-process.