--- Armed Forces Emergency Services (AFES) --- At times of emergency AFES provides the communication link between armed forces personnel wherever they may be and their family mem-bers at home. Our Red Cross worldwide emergency communications network operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We can help you or your family send emergency messages regarding the death or serious illness of a family member, the birth of a child, or other family emer-gencies. The Red Cross can provide you and your commander with fast, reliable information to help make decisions regarding emergency leaves. The Red Cross collaborates with the military aid societies in providing financial assistance when an urgent personal or family crisis arises.
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 serve in nearly 1,000 chapters in the United States, on 109 military installations around the world and alongside our troops in Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
If you or a family member is in the armed forces and you would like to learn more about the chapter’s services, please call 561-833-7711.
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