These are correct for 1998. If you know someone, you can ask them to volunteer. The way the program works is that staff and faculty members volunteer to be mentor families. They must live on post, must be an officer or an NCO, and must have a family. They can request cadets by name or request cadets by some characteristic - home state, company, religion, etc.
Cadets can also request perticular families or families with similar characteristics.
If both cadet and mentor request each other,they usually get matched. Otherwise, it is luck of the draw. Both the cadet and the family can pull out of the program if the other does not hold up their end. And, cadets can be unofficially mentored by a different family. Most mentor families take the first step and invite the cadets over several times, but after that, expect the cadet to ask to come over, or, in my case, after the first year, just drop by whenever.