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Commander-in-Chief Glen Gardner discusses POW/MIA issues with the Combat Brotherhood leadership, a nationally recognized Russian veterans’ organization. (See Russia trip report on the right sidebar) |
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The VFW National Security and Foreign Affairs (NS&FA) program promotes VFW national security goals by aggressively representing our views before various U.S. government policymakers, lawmakers, congressional committees and their staffs, federal departments and agencies (i.e., Defense, State & Homeland Security), other veterans organizations and military associations.
The VFW Committee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Military Affairs, the POW/MIA Sub-committee and the Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs are responsible for developing the VFW National Security and Foreign Affairs Program. The program mandates are derived from the resolutions adopted by the delegates to the VFW National Convention.
The NS&FA Director articulates a national security and foreign affairs policy that calls for a strong national defense and quality of life improvements for military personnel, retirees, and their families; guarantees our integrity as a nation; promotes our democratic ideals and interests abroad; and seeks the fullest possible accounting of all military service members from all wars.
The NS&FA program includes foreign travel and fact-finding trips by national officers and staff to gain firsthand knowledge of military and diplomatic operations around the world and across the country. These missions further serve to validate the requirement to pursue key issues of concern to our military forces and national interests abroad.
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