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December 21, 2020 / NEWS RELEASE: 64-20
Navy Exchange Service Command Helps Families Keep In Touch
The Navy Exchange Service Command’s (NEXCOM) Telecommunications Program Office will be paying for phone calls from deployed military members placed between from Dec. 24 – 26, 2020 and again Dec. 31, 2020 – Jan. 1, 2021. In order to place a call, military members need to have an active Personal Identification Number located on the back of a prepaid phone card or a Virtual Pin Number ordered through AT&T. Calls will be limited to 10 minutes per call.
“Once again this year, we are honored to be able to help deployed Sailors keep in touch with their loved ones over the holiday season,” said Mary B. Johnson, Vice President, NEXCOM’s Telecommunications Program Office. “We know being away from home during the holidays can be difficult and stressful. Offering these phone calls home are our way of thanking our military members for their service and sacrifice to our country.”
Ships that will be receiving free phone calls include USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), USS America (LHA 6), USS Wasp (LHD 1), USS Essex (CVN 9), USS Boxer (LHD 4), USS Iwo Jima (LHD 2), USS Makin Island (LHD 8), USS San Antonio (LPD 17), USS New Orleans (LPD 18), USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), USS Green Bay (LPD 20), USS New York (LPD 21), USS San Diego (LPD 22), USS Arlington (LPD 24) and USS Somerset (LPD 25).
In addition, free Wi-Fi will be provided on Dec. 25, 2020 and Jan. 1, 2021, for military members staying in Unaccompanied Housing at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti; Naval Support Activity and ISA Air Base, Bahrain; Naval Support Facility Deveselu, Romania, and all U. S. Navy bases in the continental United States as well as military members living in both Unaccompanied and Family Housing at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
About NEXCOM
The Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) oversees 100 Navy Exchange (NEX) facilities and nearly 300 stores worldwide, 39 Navy Lodges, the Ships Store Program, the Uniform Program Management Office, the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility and the Telecommunications Program Office. NEXCOM's parent command is the Naval Supply Systems Command. NEXCOM’s mission is to provide authorized customers quality goods and services at a savings and to support Navy quality of life programs for active duty military, retirees, reservists and their families. NEXs and Navy Lodges operate primarily as a non-appropriated fund (NAF) business instrumentality. NEX revenues generated are used to support Navy Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) programs. In FY15, $2.5 billion in sales were generated with $22.3 million in dividends provided to Navy MWR programs.
