Relocation Assistance

Your Military and Family Support Center provides relocation assistance to help make PCS moves as smooth as possible. Resources include:

• PCS planning: Most relocation assistance programs offer consultations to help you with the moving process. If this your first military move, your first time moving overseas or you have challenging or complex circumstances contact your installation Relocation Assistance Program as soon as possible for support.
• Plan My Move: An online Defense Department relocation tool that provides you with customizable checklists and links to helpful resources for the tasks ahead.
• Military OneSource: A website and call center that offer 24/7 support for moving information and resources. Learn more about PCS basics and download this fact sheet 7 Steps to Make Your Household Goods Move a Smart Move. For comprehensive moving resources and information, including Defense Personal Property log in details, visit Moving Your Personal Property.
• Workshops and briefings: Workshops vary by location. You may find classes on housing options, moving with children, moving with pets and more.
• Predeparture briefings: These sessions provide essential information about your move and may be required for some populations.
• Special needs: If you have a child or family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program, contact your installation EFMP-Family Support office to assist you.
• Settling-in services: Look for welcome programs or local area tours that may offered. Overseas services may include introductory language classes and cultural awareness activities.
• Foreign-born spouse support: Assistance includes information and referral to resources such as immigration and naturalization.
• Emergency assistance: Sometime emergencies occur while moving. The Military and Family Support Center has the resources to provide emergency financial assistance, as well as information and referrals.
• Authorized housing flexibility options: Eligible service members with PCS orders may be entitled to flexibilities such as extended stays in government housing and early housing eligibility. Contact your military personnel office for more information.
• Spouse licensure reimbursement: Your service branch may reimburse spouses up to $1,000 for relicensure and certification costs resulting from relocations or PCS moves. See this Military OneSource article Transferring Your Professional License for more information and specific service branch policies.

The Military and Family Readiness Center is available to provide you with help and to answer questions about the local area upon your arrival. After checking in at the central arrival point, individuals should report to their gaining unit orderly room. Members will receive their appointment time for the Whiteman Welcome Center from their orderly room. It is the responsibility of Central Support Services and the member’s sponsor to coordinate the appointment prior to the member’s arrival.

The Whiteman Welcome Center will ensure you and your family in-process through Military Personnel, Finance and Medical. Family members are encouraged to attend. During in-processing, you will be given a schedule of required briefings and times they will be conducted.

Foreign National Policy for Base Access

1. Reference: Air Force Instruction 31-101, Security Integrated Defense

2. Effective immediately, foreign nationals sponsored onto Whiteman Air Force Base must be vetted and approved pursuant to this memorandum prior to being granted base access. Permission for a foreign national to enter the base should never be granted on the basis of convenience, regardless of the foreign national's rank, position or status.

3. To the extent this policy conflicts with any previously issued Whiteman Air Force Base policy, this policy controls. For purposes of this policy, the term "foreign national" refers to any person who is not a U.S. citizen, other than a member of the U.S. armed forces, including military retirees and Reserve Component personnel, a U.S. military dependent registered in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System or a U.S. government employee.

4. All foreign nationals desiring base access must have a sponsor. A sponsor must be a member of the U.S. armed forces, including military retirees and Reserve Component personnel, a U.S. military dependent or a U.S. government employee, and otherwise eligible to sponsor personnel onto Whiteman AFB.

5. At least 14 days in advance of the desired date of admission onto base, a foreign national's sponsor must complete the Request for Foreign National Access to Whiteman AFB application (attachment one). Along with the application, they must provide photocopies of at least two pieces of the foreign national's original government identification (e.g., visa, passport, driver's license, etc.) to Security Forces personnel at the Visitors Center. SF personnel shall first inspect the forms of identification to ensure they are valid and not expired. SF personnel will then digitally scan the photocopies of the government identification and provide the scanned identification with the signed application to the Office of Special Investigations for processing and review. The OSI review will be governed by applicable OSI guidance.

Installation Specific Information

The Relocation Assistance Program consists of a variety of helping agencies whose expertise is to help people relocate. These include Housing Management, the Traffic Management Office, the Legal Claims Office, Financial Services, the Chapel, the Lodging Office, the Hospital, the Child Development Center, Youth Programs, Family Services and the M&FRC.

This section provides you with information concerning the agencies you will need to be familiar with during your move. Regardless of how many times you have moved, there is always something to learn.

Child Care for PSC

Twenty hours of free child care per child is paid for by the Air Force Aid Society, currently for those in all ranks. Child care is authorized at both departure base and new base, if the program is available. Call the M&FRC at your current location to determine base participation so you don't miss out on your benefits. A copy of your orders will be needed when registering for the program. Certificates are issued by the base M&FRC to active-duty members or spouses on permanent change of station orders and may be used only at the base where it is issued. Certificates are good for child care within 60 days of PCSing. Child care will be provided only at an on-base licensed Family Child Care home. M&FRC will give you a list of current licensed providers available for you to choose from. Certificates must be shown at the time care is provided to verify eligibility.

For additional information, contact the M&FRC at Whiteman for guidance or referrals. We are here for you. Call 660-687-7132 or DSN 312-975-7132.