Robins Air Force Base, Ga. -- Readiness comes in many forms for Air Force Reservists and their family members – including being ready for a disaster. Officials with the Reserve’s Commander’s Key Support Program encourage all Citizen Airmen and their family members to be familiar with a pair of resources critical to emergency and disaster preparedness: Air Force Be Ready and the Air Force Personnel Accountability and Assessment System.
Air Force Be Ready (https://beready.af.mil) is your one-stop shop for how best to prepare for all types of disasters, from explosions and hurricanes to tornadoes and droughts. The website offers valuable advice for disaster preparation, including how to put together an emergency kit, how to make a comprehensive survival plan and how to be prepared for any disaster. The site also features tips for what to do after a disaster strikes and a special section on how to prepare kids for a disaster.
The Air Force Personnel Accountability and Assessment System (https://afpaas.af.mil) standardizes the method for the Air Force to account, assess, manage and monitor the recovery and reconstitution process for personnel and their families affected and/or scattered by a wide-spread catastrophic event.
AFPAAS allows Air Force personnel to report their accounting status, update their family contact/location information, complete a needs assessment and view reference material. In the event of an exercise or real-world event, Reservists and their family members may be required to report their statuses in AFPAAS, so it’s important that they remain cognizant of their AFPAAS reporting requirements by checking AFPAAS in the event of any type of disaster.
In addition, communicating the importance of having your family members use AFPAAS to report their status in the event of an evacuation when you are not with them is critical. For your family members, the login process is also at https://afpaas.af.mil/. Click on the “Click Here” button under the “Airmen/Civilians” heading. Then, under “Select Login Method,” they will select “Personal Information” and log in with their sponsor’s Social Security number, date of birth and last name. From here, they can update contact and location information for all of the immediate family members to be accounted for.