the Yellow Ribbon Program is specific to the National Guard-and you should recieve a schedule that specifies whether or not they are going to have youth and child activities or not-they do in the state my husband drills in-however they also have a seperate youth coordinatior who organizes those things-they also generally provide child care for younger kids since the effort is to not seperate families pre-deployment. As for what you can expect-there will very likely be sessions on Tri-Care-Prime, Remote and Standard and what to expect, USSERA, what to expect emotionally during deployment,where to find resouces in the community and services available thru the guard-ours never included much on what to get on Active duty installations-but there is only one in the state we drill in and its an AF base, and probably wills and such. The Actually legal stuff will not be done now but at the SRP ( soldier readiness processing) which takes place usually the the first three days on MOB orders at home station. You will not get much information on mailing packages, addresses and what not since they wont have that info til close to the end of the time at MOB station. This is just an informational session-and a chance-if the unit doesnt have one-to start forming an FRG ( family readiness group). FRG is all volunteers and is run at the company level-if you are not involved with yours now it sthe time to get involved.-the FRSA is a paid contractor or GS civilian who usually has a number of companies-or even a Brigade sized element that she is responsible for so she will not be available for every activity your unit has durning deployment.
