California Area Office

For more than 80 years, the USO has strengthened America’s military service members by keeping them connected to family and loved ones, throughout their service to the nation. USO California continues that mission today by serving more than 415,000 service members and their families annually. USO California operates travel-based centers at John Wayne Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Ontario International Airport, Palm Springs International Airport, San Diego International Airport and San Francisco International Airport along with installation-based centers at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Fort Irwin, March Air Reserve Base and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms providing traveling and local military service members and their dependent families with all the comforts of home. We operate 2 Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) based centers at Los Angeles MEPS and San Diego MEPS.

USO California provides support to those who need it most, including morale-boosting and family-strengthening programs, deployment and redeployment support to help servicemen and women adjusting to the duty ahead, resiliency training for families facing multiple deployments, as well as support for families coping with the loss of a family member, Families of the Fallen.

USO California is not a government agency, but a private, nonprofit organization that relies solely on private support from individuals, organizations, foundations, corporations and fundraisers to support its activities.

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