If your spouse develops a
serious problem while deployed, i.e. sickness, injury, etc., the Company Commander or Rear Detachment Commander, a commander's representative, a member of the Family Support Group, and/or the
Battalion Chaplain will contact you. If someone else calls you to report an injury to your spouse, call the Company/Rear Detachment Commander immediately to verify it!!!
What if you have an emergency?
If you develop a serious problem while your spouse is deployed, contact one of the following immediately:
Company/Rear Detachment Commander
Chaplain or On-call Chaplain
Red Cross
An emergency may involve the death, critical illness or injury of an immediate family member (spouse, parents, or children.)
The military defines an emergency as follows: An emergency
is death, critical illness or injury to an immediate family member. Critically ill or injured means the possibility of death or permanent disability. Immediate family is defined as
wife/husband, parents, children, grandparents (who raised you or your spouse in place of parents for at least five years), or guardian. The commander may approve other situations, not
listed above, as emergency in nature.
The Commander/Rear Detachment Commander will maintain contact with the unit on a regular basis and can pass urgent messages to the unit for
relay to your spouse. If your spouse's presence is necessary and it is confirmed by appropriate military professionals (Doctor, Red Cross etc.), we will get your deployed spouse home.
As soon as the emergency passes, your spouse may return to his/her unit. To assist you in providing pertinent information needed to determine the extent of the emergency, an Emergency
Notification Form is at
Sources of help1. Family Support Groups and the Chain of Concern
2. Company Commander/Rear Detachment Commander and/or First Sergeant/NCOIC
3. Chaplain
4. Army Community Services (ACS) and Family Advocacy Program
5. Consumer Affairs/Financial Assistance Program (CAFAP)
