Chartered by Congress, the American Red Cross plays a vital role in supporting our military and their families wherever they go around the globe. Emergency communications, financial assistance, counseling and other support are available to active duty personnel, National Guard and Reservists, retired military members, and their immediate families.

Emergency Communications
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 events. These communications are delivered around-the-clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year. In St. Louis, the Red Cross has a 24-hour hotline available for initiating these emergency communications. Call (314) 516.2700.

Support for Military Families 
The Red Cross briefs departing service members and their families regarding available support services and explains 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
► Assistance to Veterans

Red Cross Service to Armed Forces 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.

Red Cross Role in U.S. military history
The American Red Cross has a long history of providing service to America's military in times of war. Beginning in the mid-1800s the organization's founder, Clara Barton, risked her life on the battlefields of the Civil War to tend to fallen soldiers. Clara Barton later led a contingent of nurses to Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Their heroic service prompted a Congressional Charter requiring the American Red Cross to conduct emergency communication services for armed forces personnel...

Chartered by Congress, the American Red Cross plays a vital role in supporting our military and their families wherever they go around the globe. Emergency communications, financial assistance, counseling and other support are available to active duty personnel, National Guard and Reservists, retired military members, and their immediate families.

Emergency Communications
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 events. These communications are delivered around-the-clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year. In St. Louis, the Red Cross has a 24-hour hotline available for initiating these emergency communications. Call (314) 516.2700.

Support for Military Families 
The Red Cross briefs departing service members and their families regarding available support services and explains 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
► Assistance to Veterans

Red Cross Service to Armed Forces 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.

Red Cross Role in U.S. military history
The American Red Cross has a long history of providing service to America's military in times of war. Beginning in the mid-1800s the organization's founder, Clara Barton, risked her life on the battlefields of the Civil War to tend to fallen soldiers. Clara Barton later led a contingent of nurses to Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Their heroic service prompted a Congressional Charter requiring the American Red Cross to conduct emergency communication services for armed forces personnel...