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 an emergency or other important
event. 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 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.
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