IA SailorFamily Support

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IA Sailor/Family Support
July 2007
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Purpose

• Review process
• Highlight command roles
• Identify support resources

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IA Deployment Uniqueness

• 13,000 Sailors filling IA billets (3 of the
  total force)
• Does not deploy with regular Navy unit
• Training
• Assignment length

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IA Deployment Uniqueness

• Often an element of danger
• Low key departure/ homecomings
• May be at shore duty or sea duty when selected
• May deploy TAD or PCS/GSA (GWOT Support
  Assignments)
• Additional family support systems

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Common Augmentation Assignments

• Base/port operations support
• Explosive ordnance disposal
• Mobile security forces
• Civil affairs
• Detainee operations
• Staff support
• 80 work within skill set

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Process

• Command notified
• Sailor notified
• Completes ECRC mandatory NKO checklist/ DA Form
  7425
• Processed at NMPS

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Process

• Combat skills training
• Additional training (Kuwait)
• Transported to IA assignment
• In-briefed at assignment

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IA Organizations

• Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC)
• Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC)
• Navy Mobilization Processing Sites (NMPS)
• Navy Individual Augmentation Command Training
  (NIACT)

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Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC)

• Consolidates
• Anti-terrorism force protection
• Shore-based logistical support
• Construction missions

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NECC

• Oversees
• Bomb-disposal crews
• Expeditionary logistics specialists
• Mobile dive/salvage
• Naval coastal warfare groups
• Master-at-arms forces
• Navys riverine force

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Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC)

• Is part of NECC
• Is POC for all theater related family issues
• Conduit for communications with NAVCENT for
  family issues

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ECRC

• Provides updates as to Sailor/family member
  status and/or location during mobilization
• Moderates Navy Knowledge Online IA information
• Provides referral services available for families

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ECRC

• Contact
• Web http//www.ecrc.navy.mil/
• Hotline [phone]
• Email Ecrc.hq.fct_at_navy.mil

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NMPS

• Handles both active duty and reservists
• Ensures Sailor is ready to deploy
• Most Sailors spend only a few days at NMPS
• Recent process improvement review completed

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NMPS

• Main processing sites
• San Diego 619-887-8080
• Norfolk - 757-438-3375
• Seabees
• Gulfport 228-871-3199
• Port Hueneme 805-982-2007

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Combat Skills Training

• Provided by the Army
• Most Sailors trained at Fort Jackson, South
  Carolina
• May also be trained at other Army installations
• Two weeks long may be lengthened

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Combat Skills Training

• Topics include
• Weapons qualifications
• Convoy operations
• Urban operations
• Code of conduct
• First aid
• Cultural awareness

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Command Responsibilities

• Two-pronged approach
• Accountability for every IA assigned from command
• Implementation of all phases of Combat and
  Operational Stress Control program (COSC) -
  NAVADMIN/182/07

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Command Responsibilities

• Appoint a Command IA Coordinator
• Chief or above designated in writing
• Report Command IA Coordinator contact
  information to ECRC
• Conduct monthly review of coordinators
  activities
• Review procedures for accuracy
• Verify compliance regularly including annual
  coordinator training
• Submit periodic Eval/FITREP

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Command Responsibilities

• Your command IA Coordinator is the
• IA SME at command
• Single POC for questions
• Trainer at command INDOC to dispel IA myths
• A link to resources and works closely with the
  command ombudsman

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Command Responsibilities(Command IA Coordinator)

• PHASE I (Deployment Readiness)
• Ensures Sailor/alternate notified
• Reviews orders with Sailor
• Ensures completion of ECRC pre-deployment
  checklist
• Forwards completed checklist to ECRC
• Provides IA Sailor/Family Handbooks
• Informs OMB when IA orders are received

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Command Responsibilities(Command IA Coordinator)

• PHASE II (Deployment)
• Contacts command IAs at least monthly via
  telephone or email
• Maintains a working relationship with the Command
  Ombudsman
• Documents contacts
• Informs CO or designee of significant issues
• Acknowledges IAs in POD, newsletters, bulletin
  boards, etc.

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Command Responsibilities(Ombudsman )

• PHASE II (Deployment)
• Maintains a working relationship with the command
  IA Coordinator
• Maintains at least monthly contact with IA family
  members
• With permission, tell CO/IA Coordinator of any
  concerns expressed by IA families

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Command Responsibilities (Ombudsman)

• PHASE II (Deployment)
• Informs IA families about resources
• Keeps IA families on command correspondence such
  as newsletters, telephone trees, social rosters,
  etc
• Links IA families to the Expeditionary Combat
  Readiness Center as necessary

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Command Responsibilities(Command IA Coordinator)

• PHASE III (Post Deployment)
• Personally welcomes IA Sailors back to command
• Ensures IAs return acknowledged
• Ensures IA completes post deployment health
  assessments
• Recognizes combat stress
• Makes referrals

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Command Responsibilities (Ombudsman)

• PHASE III (Post Deployment)
• Helps families recognize symptoms of combat
  stress
• Continues resource referral as appropriate

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FFSC San Diego IA Programs

• Monthly Command IA Coordinators Training (NMPS
  Aud.)
• Bi-monthly IA Deployment Readiness brief (MCC)
• Bi-monthly (Daytime) IA Readiness Brief (NMPS
  Aud.)
• Bi-monthly IA Family Information Fair (MCC)

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Fleet and Family Support Centers (FFSC) Provide

• Financial education and counseling
• Transition/employment assistance
• Relocation services
• Sexual assault/domestic violence
  prevention/intervention
• Life skills classes
• Information and referral
• Deployment/reunion preparation

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Combat stress

• Combat and operational stress is the mental,
  emotional or physical tension, strain or
  distress resulting from exposure to combat and/or
  operation related conditions.
• Combat stress is any stress that occurs during
  the course of combat-related duties, whether due
  to enemy action or other sources.

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Combat stress

• Symptoms of combat and operational stress may not
  appear until affected Sailors return home
• Behaviors you might see
• Angry outburst
• Tearfulness/sadness
• Poor work performance
• Not taking care of him/herself
• Behaving in an unusual fashion, or acting out of
  character

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DD Form-2900

• Commanding officers are responsible for
• Ensuring that the post-deployment health
  reassessment (DD Form 2900) is completed between
  90-180 days after return
• Any needed follow-up is obtained

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Refer to

• Fleet and Family Support Center
• Chaplain
• Military OneSource
• Medical
• Fleet Mental Health

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Summary

• Process reviewed
• Highlighted command role and responsibilities
• Identified support resources

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