SALT LAKE CITY -- The Air Force Personnel Accountability and Assessment System (APAAS) has recently integrated a self-assessment reporting system into their website (
https://afpaas.af.mil) to help track personnel accountability, and to get emergency aid to military members as quickly as possible during regional disasters.
AFPAAS maintains a database of Air Force personnel, so when a widespread catastrophic event hits, a Geographical Area of Interest (affected area) is determined, and personnel who live and/or work in that area are flagged and will be accounted for. Total Force Airmen and their families who are affected, as well as civilian employees with an assigned pass code, can now use the site to report their accountability assessment status.
A Common Access Card (CAC) is not required for updates on the AFPAAS website.
During a natural or man-made disaster, Airmen and their families can utilize the site to report their accounting status, update their location information if displaced, and request emergency assistance. Reports will then be assigned a case code along with a severity level. The case then flows to the local Family Readiness Center, where emergency relief is triaged and delegated to assist military members and their families.
In support of Air Force readiness, AFPAAS and Family Readiness Centers work together by providing affected members and families with case managers, counselors, subject matter experts, and community and national resources and services. Just a few of the needs they assist with are medical, locating missing family members, transportation, housing (temporary and permanent), financial assistance, family employment, child care, legal services, counseling, chaplain and funeral arrangements.
Airmen can still provide self-assessment reports to AFPAAS over the phone, 1-800-435-9941, in which an operator inputs caller information into the AFPAAS website.
The AFPAAS website was designed to standardize a method for the Air Force to account, manage, and monitor the recovery and reconstitution process for personnel and their families involved in a regional disaster or crisis. The AFPAAS website also provides the information to all levels of the Air Force chain of command, allowing commanders to make strategic decisions which facilitate a return to stability.