Links

Checklists

Contacts/Account# List - A checklist to help organize everything from who to call for repairs to account numbers.

Pre-Deployment Checklist - A financial, administrative and legal checklist.


For Kids

A Story Before Bed - Read and record children's book online for your kids.

Flat Daddy/Mommy - Life-sized printed posters of parents who are actively serving overseas in the military.

Hug A Hero - Dolls will keep you close to their hearts and just a cuddle away whether you are deployed with the military, traveling for business, or a grandparent living across the country.


Healthcare

Tricare - Health care program serving military members, retirees and their families worldwide.

United Concordia - Dental program serving military members and their families.

VA - Department of Veterans Affairs


Misc.

Blue Star Flag - In honor of all of the brave men and women in uniform, Grantham University will send a FREE Blue Star Flag that you can display to pay tribute to your service member's hard work, dedication, and service to our country.

Deployment Bracelets - Sheree will make you a deployment bracelet with your loved one's name. 10% from each Deployment Bracelet® sold goes to the USO.

Hero On My Arm - You send in a uniform (top or pants) and they'll make a handbag/diaper bag out of it.  Click here to order your Hero On My Arm bag

Mailing Kits (free from USPS)  - Military Care Package Mailing Kits include free boxes, priority mail tape/labels and customs forms.

Military Care Package - Scion appreciates the service and dedication of our service members for defending our country. They put together free care packages that you can send to your loved one.

National Guard - My Life  - The Army National Guard has a new application they created and is designed to give users an online visualization experience that will help the user plan their future. The program titled My Life helps users customize their “life” through different environment, occupation, and interest decisions showing users how their decisions will affect them financially and professionally.

Operation Homefront - Provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors.

Operation It's Me - With the support of Soldiers' Angels, Artist Susie Allen of Colorado provides beautiful pencil or charcoal drawings of deployed service members as gifts of love and appreciation for their parents through Operation It's Me.

Operation: Love ReUnited - Operation: Love ReUnited photo sessions are for deploying, depolyed and returning military families. Many of our photographers offer seperate pricing for military members if you are interested in family portraits.

Operation Postcards - Send FREE postcards to a friend or loved one serving in the Armed Services from your smartphone or computer!

Skype - Free video calling makes it easy to be together, even when you're not.

Welcome Home Banner - Free welcome home banners for military families.


Resources

Family Education - Family Education Network includes content, resources, and shopping for parents, teachers, and kids. It's a little bit of everything...from marriage to children's product and toy recalls and bullying to family fun ideas.

Operation READY - Resources for Eduacating About Deployment and You. Understanding and planning for military separation.

Military One Source - A 24/7 resource with information and tools. You can find everything from help with taxes to emergency childcare.

Soldiers' Angels - Soldiers' Angels is a volunteer-led nonprofit with hundreds of thousands of volunteers providing aid and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, veterans and their families.

Things To Do

Free Museum Admission  - All active duty military families get free admission to any Blue Star Museum, Memorial Day (5/30) through Labor Day (9/5) 2011.

Here's To The Heroes - Free admission to most Anheuser-Busch parks.

YMCA - Free gym memberships to families of Guard/Reserve personnel who are deployed for a minimum of 6 months.