at some point in their military career, your service member may ask if you can help them with certain personal business that can be hard to handle if they have limited communications or access to technology. to hand off these responsibilities they need to create and sign a power of attorney that designates you or someone they trust as their representative. the military maintains legal services offices to prepare powers of attorney for service members, and may bring the legal services to the individual units before deployments or other operations. powers of attorney may be general or written to address a specific transaction(s). your service member will have to think through and determine the types of transactions they may need you, other family members or trusted people to complete.