OAK HARBOR, Wash. (NNS) -- Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) hosted a Command Financial Specialist (CFS) class at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island May 10-14.
The purpose of this class is to educate future specialists about finances and how to help other Sailors within their commands understand their finances and how to handle tough financial situations.
"This is a five-day course, and we host this at the FFSC every quarter to Sailors who have been selected by their command to do financial counseling at their command," said Kathleen Johnson of Nazareth, Texas, a Personal Financial Management (PFM) head at FFSC. "This week the Sailors are gaining education on how to actually make that happen. They're getting basic knowledge. They're getting their responsibility and how to do financial counseling; they're getting the tools they need to perform their jobs as command financial specialist".
Over the course of the five-day class, future financial specialists learn about personal finance management, establishing a spending plan, managing credit, Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), car buying, saving and investing and retirement planning.
