Starting a Fraternal Organization for Veterans

[33girl]

The problem with this is, you have to think forward to the time when (God willing) this war will be over and we won't have as many college age combat veterans as we do now. Then the fraternity either dies out for lack of a member pool or it has to change its purpose. I believe that one of the NIC groups was originally formed for this purpose after WWII, but is now just a general-interest fraternity.

There is Pershing Rifles but I'm not sure if they have changed their programming at all to accomodate the increased numbers of veterans at colleges. You could try giving them a call though.

[jestersrobe]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The problem with this is, you have to think forward to the time when (God willing) this war will be over and we won't have as many college age combat veterans as we do now. Then the fraternity either dies out for lack of a member pool or it has to change its purpose. I believe that one of the NIC groups was originally formed for this purpose after WWII, but is now just a general-interest fraternity.

There is Pershing Rifles but I'm not sure if they have changed their programming at all to accomodate the increased numbers of veterans at colleges. You could try giving them a call though.

I am not looking at strictly combat veterans--I would like to accommodate all veterans who have served in the military. I do not see the number of veterans leaving the military decreasing any time in the next decade (at least). I truly believe that the numbers will increase long before they decrease.

As far as Pershing Rifles goes, they are not a veterans group. They are involved with ROTC. It seems like a great resource if I can get them involved, though.