Services for the 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 events. Family members back home can also send important messages to military members stationed away from home. 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.

The Lakeland Chapter is available to brief departing service members and their families regarding available support services and to 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, access to financial assistance, counseling and assistance to veterans.

Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services 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.

If you live within Lakeland Chapter jurisdiction and need to get in contact with a family member serving in the Armed Forces, please call 1-800-696-3873 and ask to speak with an Armed Forces Emergency Services caseworker. If you are unable to reach someone at that phone number, call the Lakeland Chapter at 920-468-8535 and ask for Emergency Services.