OUR MISSION
Our efforts are to unite, under one state legislative umbrella, the leadership and membership of Tennessee’s individual veteran organizations to work on behalf of all state veterans (and active duty members stationed in Tennessee) in advancing services and/or benefits for all members; and, to provide a forum in which to present, discuss, debate and propose procedural and/or legislative solutions to inequities and issues affecting the veteran community and its active duty counterparts within the state of Tennessee. This work is performed in a nonpartisan manner.
Currently, our membership is from the following organizations: Air & Space Forces Association (AFA), Buffalo Soldiers, Farmer Veterans Coalition, American Veterans, Marine Corps League, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), West TN Veterans Coalition, Disable American Veterans (DAV), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Women Veterans of America (WVA) and Veterans Service Organization (VSO).
We are working to have more military/veteran organizations join us in the near future.
Below are the member organization logos, their TNVET voting board representative(s) and their national or Tennessee state website connection. In total, they represent almost 50,000 veterans in Tennessee!
TNVET Board AFA Representative: Dan F. Callahan
Organization Website: https://www.afa.org/
TNVET Board Buffalo Soldier Representative: Chaplain Eddie Sumbler
Organization Websites: http://www.bsmcclarksville.com/
TNVET Board AMVET Represntative: Tommy Jurnett
Tennessee AMVET Representative – Post 1776: https://amvets-tennessee.org/post-1776/
Organizational Website: https://www.amvets.org/
TNVET Board MCL Representative: Stephen Baird, Woody Jenson
Organization Website: http://www.mcldepttn.org/
TNVET Board MOAA Representatives: Doug Minton, Ivan Adames
Organization Website: https://www.moaa.org
TNVET Board DAV Representative: Will Menton
Organization Website:
https://www.davtn.org/
TNVET Board VFW Representative: Mike Rhew
Organization Website: https://www.vfw.org/
TNVET Board VVA Representatives: Ron Bottomley and Jack Cate
Organization Website: https://tscvva.com/
TNVET Board WVA Representatives for Clarksville: Robin Beamon. Zoyie Jackson; Representatives for Nashville: Twylia Peebles
Organization Website: https://wvanational.tripod.com/WVANational/national-women-veterans-of-america.html