The annual awards recognize outstanding young people ages 13 to 18. Recipients will represent a branch of the armed forces – the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard, and Space Force – for their scholarship, volunteerism, leadership, extracurricular involvement, and other criteria while facing the challenges of military family life.
Child must be a legal military dependent. Status confirmed by DEERS enrollment form.
Military children must be between the ages of 13 and 18, at the time of nomination.
Child and one adult guardian must be available to travel to the Washington, DC area April 8-11, during the month of the military child, for the Operation Homefront Military Child of the Year Awards Gala award presentation.
Officers, directors, employees, and agents of Operation Homefront and its subsidiaries or affiliated organizations, and their immediate family members (parent, child, sibling, and spouse of each) and those living in the same households of each are not eligible to receive programs, services, grants, or donated goods intended for use by Operation Homefront’s clients.
Previous Operation Homefront Military Child of the Year Award Recipients, including Innovation Award recipients, are no longer eligible.
In addition to the above eligibility requirements, if selected as a Semifinalist, must:
Provide Letters of recommendation
Provide Form 1172- DEERS
Be willing to participate in media and donor opportunities
Recipients will be chosen based on evaluation of candidates’ scholarship, volunteerism, leadership, extracurricular involvement, and other criteria while facing the challenges of military family life.
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