External Currents, Trends, and Forces There are quite a few non profit organizations out there that support our American Veterans the main competitors that I found while conducting my research are: Wounded Warrior Project, Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA). The Wounded Warrior Project’s mission is to honor and empower our wounded warriors. They would like to aid in providing this generation with the most successful and well-adjusted transition of wounded members in the service in the United States history. The Disabled American Veterans or DAV is a not for profit charity providing support of veterans of all generations alongside their families as well aiding over
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This was formed due to the lack of any help of anyone for the veterans who came back from war and had to take care of themselves. Every year amongst all of the members of the VFW which total to almost 1.7 million, contribute to more than 8.6 million volunteer hours within the community and through other outlets (VFW, 2016.) The Vietnam Veterans of America’s purpose is aid the Vietnam veterans in keeping up their quality of life. They also like to promote self-confidence, self-respect, personal growth …show more content…
Being established that early on allowed the Legion to find it’s niche plant it’s roots and do nothing but flourish from there. At the local level they have posts, which there are a lot of them throughout every state. A post is the lowest on the totem pole as far as national, state, and local levels are concerned. Posts are established to conduct business matters, raising money, and for hanging out such as a bar. They cover the wartime’s of World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, also the Persian Gulf War and the war on terrorism as well. With being around so long this gives them the edge over any other organization. The Legion provides its members with aid; sometimes a post to hangout at or events to travel to and prosper from, and it is open to the Air Force, Army, Navy, Coast Guard as well as the Marines. With that being said they are a very accepting organization that is allowed to bring on board many members from lots of different
This was formed due to the lack of any help of anyone for the veterans who came back from war and had to take care of themselves. Every year amongst all of the members of the VFW which total to almost 1.7 million, contribute to more than 8.6 million volunteer hours within the community and through other outlets (VFW, 2016.) The Vietnam Veterans of America’s purpose is aid the Vietnam veterans in keeping up their quality of life. They also like to promote self-confidence, self-respect, personal growth …show more content…
Being established that early on allowed the Legion to find it’s niche plant it’s roots and do nothing but flourish from there. At the local level they have posts, which there are a lot of them throughout every state. A post is the lowest on the totem pole as far as national, state, and local levels are concerned. Posts are established to conduct business matters, raising money, and for hanging out such as a bar. They cover the wartime’s of World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, also the Persian Gulf War and the war on terrorism as well. With being around so long this gives them the edge over any other organization. The Legion provides its members with aid; sometimes a post to hangout at or events to travel to and prosper from, and it is open to the Air Force, Army, Navy, Coast Guard as well as the Marines. With that being said they are a very accepting organization that is allowed to bring on board many members from lots of different