Service to the Armed Forces

Today's American Red Cross is keeping pace with the changing military. Using the latest in computer and telecommunications technology, the Red Cross allows military members stationed all over the world to send messages to loved ones back home during emergency or other important events. These communications are delivered around-the-clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year. 

While serving 1.4 million active duty personnel, the Red Cross also reaches out to the 1.5 million members of the National Guard and the Reserves who reside in nearly every local community in America.

Hundreds of Red Cross chapters brief departing service members and their families regarding available support services and explain how the Red Cross may assist them during the deployment. Both active duty and community-based military can count on the Red Cross to provide emergency communications that link them with their families back home, access to financial assistance, counseling and assistance to veterans.

Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services personnel work in nearly 900 chapters in the United States, on 79 military installations around the world and with our troops in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Red Cross Volunteer Receives President's   Volunteer Service Award Station Chair at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center is among those honored by President Bush on Military Spouse Day.   Kaprece James

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Did You Know........?      

• In 1905, Congress mandated the American Red Cross to provide Emergency Communications between soldier's and their families.  It has since been a free service to our military community.

• Active duty service members stationed in the United States and their immediate family members can call the Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Service Centers for help seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

• Last year, Madison/Marshall/Jackson County American Red Cross sent 1,360 emergency communications.

• Red Cross is not a governmental agency and provides these services through the generous support of donors. 

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