Service to the Armed Forces

The American Red Cross provides an exclusive worldwide communications and support network that serves as a lifeline between military service members and their families. For the American soldier and his or her family, the Red Cross is the connection to home, relaying urgent information -- a family crisis, a death in the family, a financial emergency, or a joyous birth.

Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces include:
Emergency Communications
Keeping military personnel in touch with their families during family emergencies such as death, serious illness or the birth of a child. Red Cross emergency messages provide military personnel and their commanders with fast, reliable information to help them make decisions about emergency leave, deferment, compassionate reassignment and dependency discharge. Nationally, the American Red Cross transmits more than 1.4 million emergency messages each year to members of the U.S. Armed Services and their families.

Financial Assistance
Working with military aid societies to provide interest-free loans or grants when urgent personal or family crises arise. Financial aid is used for such things as emergency travel, burial assistance, food and shelter.

Please call (877) 272-7337 to send a Red Cross message or for financial assistance.