The Russell County Chapter of the American Red Cross, based in Phenix City, Alabama cooperates with the various military branches to provide members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families with timely and reliable access to emergency communications.

Our goal in peacetime, and especially in times of war, is to keep families and military personnel connected when other forms of communication are inaccessible.

If you need assistance or know of someone needing assistance, please call 334/298-3631 - 24 hours a day.

It is important that the following information is provided when you call:

• Service person's full and legal name, rank and military address.
  
• Name of caller, phone number, address, and relationship to the service person.
  
• Notification of death: Name of deceased, relationship to the service person, cause of death, name of doctor, hospital, or funeral home that can verify death, including a phone number.
  
• Illness: Name of patient, relationship to service person, attending physicians name, phone number, and permission to contact.
  
• Branch of Service: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, etc.
  
• Military address and phone number
  
• Social Security Number
  
• Date of birth
  

Note: The Russell County Chapter can only handle military cases when the family member who contacts the Red Cross resides in Russell County, (if you live in Russell County, but work in Georgia, then you are still to come through us, not the chapter in the city where you work).  Also, if you live in Smiths Station or Salem, please contact the Lee County Red Cross.