MilitaryHOMEFRONT is the Department of Defense website for official Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) program information, policy and guidance designed to help troops and their families, leaders, and service providers. Whether you live the military lifestyle or support those who do, you'll find what you need!
Highlights & Headlines
Teams Begin Taping Holiday Greetings Overseas Three, three-person Joint Hometown News Service broadcast teams have begun to tape video greetings from service members and their families stationed overseas.
(Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009)
American Public Sends More Than $8 Million in Support to Military Families In just five short years, contributions to "Help Our Troops Call Home" have surpassed the $8 million mark. All totaled, more than 17,000 individual orders have been placed to send 355,612 phone cards to deployed troops and their families back home.
(Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009)
Defense Department Launches Weekly News Podcast Defense Department officials have launched "AFPS News," a weekly audio podcast of stories from American Forces Press Service.
(Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2009)
Guide for Helping Children and Youth Cope with Separation This guide was created for parents, relatives, teachers, service members, and community members to help children and youth cope with separation from a parent due to military deployment.
(Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2009)
White House Launches Virtual Town Hall for Troops With Military OneSource as their host, the White House launched an interactive, virtual town hall meeting that enables troops deployed within U.S. Central Command to pose their questions and get direct feedback from the commander in chief.
(Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009)
ECHO Cap Increase Proposed - Comments Welcome from You DoD published its proposed rule in the Federal Register for implementing changes to the Extended Care Health Option (ECHO) enacted in Section 732 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (NDAA FY09). DoD is accepting comments until October 30, 2009.
(Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009)
