FRG Leaders Site

[Crooks]

Here is a great site for FRG Leaders:
http://FRGLeader.army.mil

[Leah]

Tara,
I'm glad you posted this, have you heard of the vFRG? I just heard of it about a month ago, and I'm taking the training for it right now. I know not all units have it, but it sounds awesome.

[Crooks]

I will admit my experience with vFRG was not the best. I am not impressed thus far - unless they have some changes I just don't see it working. It worked "ok" for us as a deployed unit - but I think that there needs to be some serious training done and some resources allocated to it - as well as making sure that there is an assigned person reponsible for it (or someone passionate about it) at each unit level. Most I've seen are under utilized and not visited by their members. ARGGHHHH!!!

[SeasonedSpouse]

The vFRG is a wonderful resource for the Guard & Reserves, or here at Fort Sill where we have the "Waiting Families" and your not co-located with the deployed or assigned unit! Again - it's great if its used! The key if having one person who is manning the web-site! I had one in Germany and the Family Members in the States loved it! Sometimes we only posted our newsletter, but, that still kept them connected.

[Crooks]

I dig the concept - I just haven't seen one really work yet.
I can see how it would work MUCH better in the Guard/Reserve units.

[caw]

I will admit my experience with vFRG was not the best.

I tried to take the classes on-line and it kept on booting me off. I go there to check on dates for meeting and that is it.

[ltwife]

I am really new to all this FRG stuff. We are with a reserve unit and they really don't have an active FRG. I am trying to find out all I can about FRG and was just wondering what the vFRG is and how does it work?

Thanks so much
Jennifer
(confused army wife)

[Medic's Wife]

From what I've learned (which isn't much so far!), the vFRG site is such a bear because it's on a DoD server and, therefore, 100% secure. The trouble I'm having with it so far is that my husband can't seem to approve my AKO accounts or verify that he's my sponsor, so I've not been able to access my unit's vFRG page.

vFRG - or virtual Family Readiness Group for the lady who asked - can be a great way for families who might not want to attend FRG meetings to stay in touch with what is going on in a unit. For those wives and families who love on post while their husbands are home, but who then go home when/if he gets deployed, a vFRG can also be a good way for them to stay up to date with official unit information aside from phone calls from Key Callers. Because the vFRG site is 100% secure, information that can't be posted on Twitter or Facebook, etc. can be posted on the vFRG site.

Yeah, it's basic, doesn't really look good, and probably has server issues. However, I think that if FRGs start building their sites, we might be able to push the higher-ups to devote a little bit more time to vFRG sites. Might be something to bring up when your post starts asking for issues to be presented for the Army Family Action Plan meetings.

Beth
Fort Stewart, GA
FRG Key Caller, Family Care Team

[trekswithbaggage]

I have to say that our BN FRG gal is on the ball and keeps our vFRG site looking and working great. Each unit has its own page and there is a BN page that you navigate from. So far they've kept things pretty well up to date from what I can tell. I'm hoping it stays that way as the field movements and deployments come up.

For what it's worth, I don't have an AKO for myself (yet) but I have no issues accessing it. (shrug)

[homanrl]

I've just stepped up a couple months ago and decided to get involved with our FRG. There are only 5 of us in our FRG, which is sad yet exciting because we have so much room to grow. We are the ONLY active FRG in DH's BN. That's got to be good right? I'm sure I'll be asking all kinds of FRG questions from here on. This is a great reference that I'll pass on to our "team".