About Us

About Us

The Alliance is the world's largest membership organization of military reunion groups and those who support them.

Our mission is to be a valuable resource for those who organize, manage, host, and serve Military Reunion Groups from all services and eras. We do so by providing our members with information, training, contacts, and personal networking opportunities.

Our membership consists of about 550 military reunion groups and 250 hotels, Convention and Visitors Bureaus, hotels, and similar organizations. Collectively, they have conducted or hosted over 10,000 military reunions.

We are a nonprofit Pennsylvania corporation, run entirely by volunteers, and we qualify as a Veterans' Organization under Section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Our Origin

The idea for a confederation of military reunion groups was conceived on April 17, 2009, in an informal discussion among five people at the Norfolk Plaza Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia. They had just finished a familiarization tour conducted by the local convention and visitors bureau. Someone made the point that FAM tours are great for evaluating destinations, but that there was really no forum for reunion group leaders to discuss the many other topics of interest to them—membership, leadership, finances, web sites, and the like. Skip Sander and Joyce Marshall set out to correct that situation by forming a new organization.

Over the next few weeks we contacted 1,921 present and past leaders of military reunion groups, 216 of whom expressed an interest in our activities. We had an organizational meeting near Washington, D.C. on June 13, 2009. Planners and leaders from 33 reunion groups attended, representing all U.S. services: Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy.

Over 550 military reunion groups have become members in the three years since that meeting, as have over 300 destination management organizations and commercial entities such as hotels, tour companies, and attractions.

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