Who is eligible to apply to Operation Purple camps?
Operation Purple camps are open to children from all service branches including National Guard and Reserve, Coast Guard, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration & Public Health Services; however, priority is given to those children who have or will have a parent or guardian deployed between September 2008 and December 2009 (includes pre-, during and post-deployment phases). If all spaces are not filled with campers who meet the deployment criteria, the remaining camp slots are filled with any eligible military child. “Deployment” is defined loosely as we recognize TDY and travel can often take service members away from family for significant periods of time.
