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About Community Bank

The Department of Defense Overseas Military Banking Program (OMBP) provides stateside-like banking products and services to authorized customers through facilitating the operation of Community Bank.

The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, in coordination with the Military Service banking representatives, is responsible for the daily oversight, control and management of the OMBP.

Community Bank is operated through a contract between a commercial financial institution and the Department of Defense. Currently, the contractor is Bank of America.

Community Bank has nearly 90 banking centers and over 300 ATMs in Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan and Okinawa, Korea, Diego Garcia, Guantanamo Bay, Honduras and Kwajalein Atoll. The contract specifies who is authorized to use the banking services, which are listed below:

Authorized Customers

• Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel, and their sponsored family members.
  
• DoD U.S. Civilian Employees and their sponsored family members.
  
• U.S. Employees of all other U.S. Government departments and NAFIs, and their sponsored family members.
  
• Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel and U.S. Government Civilian Personnel on temporary duty.
  
• U.S. Reserve Military Personnel on temporary active duty.

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