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ARMED FORCES EMERGENCY SERVICES
Providing service to our Military and their Families for 125 years.
If anything happens to your family, the American Red Cross will be able to send messages to soldiers and their family members anywhere on the planet, including Iraq.
HOW IT WORKS:
The family member geographically closest to the emergency, should contact their local Red Cross. For example, if the emergency occurs in Coshocton, Guernsey or Noble County, then they should contact the American Red Cross of Coshocton County & Ohio Hills.
When the local Red Cross is contacted, please have as much information about the emergency as possible. This would include: family member's name, doctor's name and phone number, hospital's name, phone number and location, and the name and location of the person the message is to be sent to.
It is very important for family members to know the unit location so the message can be forwarded to the person it is for quickly. If the message simply says "GERMANY", it will get delivered, but it will take longer than if it says, for example, "A CO 440TH SIG BN, DARMSTADT GERMANY".
Once the local Red Cross has the message, the information will be verified and sent to the Red Cross unit that covers that particular area. For example, if the messages says deliver to "SGT JOHN DOE, A CO 440TH SIG BN, DARMSTADT GERMANY", it will be delivered to the American Red Cross, Darmstadt Station.
Once it arrives at its destination, and, yes, there is a strong Red Cross presence in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and anywhere soldiers may be deployed, the message is delivered to First Sergeants or appropriate command staff as well as the soldier or civilian it is intended for.
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER:
While the Red Cross does do "Health and Welfare" inquiries on soldiers and civilians, please keep in mind that it will take time for them to get where they are going, and they may not always have access to telephones or the internet.
Please allow some time for the deployed to get situated before worrying. If something happens, you will be notified.
No news, really is good news.
Emergency Military contact - 740-202-0281
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