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Pomme de Terre Friday 6/4
Attached is flyer for the Home Community Care (HCC) program.
Interested members of 442nd that need childcare for upcoming UTA weekends should contact the Family Child Care (FCC) at 660-687-5590.
Childcare is subject to approval and availability of FCC providers.
The National Military Family Association is opening financial relief applications for military families facing childcare challenges due to the pandemic. Selected families will be eligible for $1500 in child care reimbursements. Applications will be open April 26 –May 10.
Who is eligible to apply:
· Active-duty families or Reserve and Guard families on active orders for 6 months
· E1 – E6 paygrades only
o If dual military both must be within these ranks
· Must have a qualifying dependent who is 13 or under or is physically or mentally incapable for self-care regardless of age
With a spouse who is employed (minimum 15 hours per week) or currently pursuing a degree (minimum 6 credit hours) or professional pursuit (licensure or certification — minimum 15 hours per week
Apply at this link:
https://www.militaryfamily.org/programs/child-care-fee-relief/?fbclid=IwAR0tgTwjrsjqB7dyBleElO5RWWdBihn2LrdhPQvLdUCTHjpQsXng7TW_6QQ
Is this one of your birds at Fair St. Louis 2019?
Are you looking for child care for the upcoming January drill?
If so then the Home Community Care (HCC) program may be able to help.
The HCC Program is designed to provide child care for those members of the Guard and Reserves (CAT A and B) during their regularly scheduled, or properly re-scheduled, drill periods. The care is for Training Periods and Unit Training Assemblies only. Other forms of Inactive Duty training (e.g. RMPs and AFTPs) do not qualify for HCC. In addition, individuals on active duty orders (e.g. AT, ADOS, MPA, or RPA) do not qualify for HCC.
Up to three UTA weekends can be put on one HCC request.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
* Member of the Military Service
*Reserve or Guard
*Assigned to an Air Force Guard or Reserve Unit/Installation
*No other adult in the household available to provide care
*AF Form 40As must be provided for Rescheduled Drills
*Completed AF FCC ECC Request
Call the Family Child Care (FCC) office at 660-687-5590 for more information and an application.
If you made a HCC request but have not received a confirmation please call FCC ASAP to confirm the request.
Are you looking for child care for the upcoming November drill?
If so then the Home Community Care (HCC) program may be able to help.
The HCC Program is designed to provide child care for those members of the Guard and Reserves (CAT A and B) during their regularly scheduled, or properly re-scheduled, drill periods.
The care is for Training Periods and Unit Training Assemblies only. Other forms of Inactive Duty training (e.g. RMPs and AFTPs) do not qualify for HCC. In addition, individuals on active duty orders (e.g. AT, ADOS, MPA, or RPA) do not qualify for HCC.
Up to three UTA weekends can be put on one HCC request.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
* Member of the Military Service
*Reserve or Guard
*Assigned to an Air Force Guard or Reserve Unit/Installation
*No other adult in the household available to provide care
*AF Form 40As must be provided for Rescheduled Drills
*Completed AF FCC ECC Request
Call the Family Child Care (FCC) office at 660-687-5590 for more information and an application.
Do you need child care for your upcoming drill weekend? Air Force may be able to help with the Home Community Care (HCC) program. Some restrictions apply. Call the Family Child Care (FCC) office at 660-687-5590 or email the Community Child Care Coordinator at
[email protected] for more details.
Angry, glad to see your self-constraint. You lead the Best of all of us. As a civilian, I appreciate you "standing the wall". Especially in the AFR position. You have already done your bit in the active. Now you and the 442 do even more! We are blessed to have you all. While you look outward and protect us and our way of life, I know it looks crazy when you look back at all of us. But it is because of men and women like you that let us wake up every morning safe. Not looking who is attacking us or which of our family members are missing. That basic protection allows us to engage in the pursuit of higher freedoms. That pursuit is never easy or without various opinions and looks awful messy. We are the only country in the world with such freedoms. We are a young nation by civilization standards but we are the one that allows personal freedom to the extent that we must all live together regardless of our beliefs. This too shall pass. It will be forged in the melting pot of all our cultures to emerge American. Stand the wall! Keep the Faith! America will pervail.
Good information I found in another post and wanted to share with you; cross-posted here by request:
From an MD immunologist:
I don't post a lot on facebook but I would like to give my perspective and context on the coronavirus outbreak. I hope I can be a more reputable source of perspective as a physician who specializes and is board certified in immunology (as well as pediatrics, allergy and dermatology).
1. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses. "coronavirus" is not unique to this particular strain. Everyone reading this has likely had another different coronavirus infection. This particular strain has been named COVID-19.
2. Every upper respiratory virus has the potential to be lethal. Patients unfortunately die from many upper respiratory viral infections every year - most prominently the influenza virus. 30,000 people died from the influenza virus in 2019. The media didn't report each one. They have reported all 11 coronavirus deaths. Not telling us about the people lost but rather keeping a death "toll".
Let me repeat that:
-Coronavirus: 11 deaths (US in 2020), 3300 deaths (China in 2020).
-Influenza: 30,000 deaths (US in 2019).
*Influenza pandemic of 1918: 675,000! (US), 20-50 MILLION!! (worldwide)