To be eligible for membership in AMVETS, you must have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, including the National Guard and Reserves, any time after Sept. 15, 1940. 

Additionally, unless still serving, your discharge must have been under honorable conditions. 

If you served as an American citizen in the armed forces of an allied nation, under honorable conditions, between Sept. 15, 1940 and May 8, 1975, you are also eligible, as are wartime members of the Merchant Marine. 

Proof of eligibility can be a DD-214, an honorable discharge certificate or other appropriate document. 

A network of AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary members across the country provides teamwork of support for local volunteers. Volunteering is the heart of the AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary. 

Volunteer services are recognized through an extensive awards program on the department and national levels. 

Membership in AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary is open to the mothers, wives, widows, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, and granddaughters of AMVETS and female veterans who are currently serving or who have honorably served in the Armed Forces of the United States, including the National Guard and Reserve components, anytime after September 15, 1940.

The Sons of AMVETS, as its name implies, is a nationwide organization comprised of the sons of American veterans who are members of AMVETS. 

The Sons actively promote AMVETS’ legislative agenda, providing services to hospitalized veterans and supporting charitable initiatives. 

Eligibility for membership in the Sons of AMVETS shall be limited to all male descendants, grandsons, adopted sons and stepsons, fathers, husbands, widowers, and brothers of members of AMVETS and the deceased members of AMVETS, or the personnel who died and would have been eligible for membership in the parent organization, and are at least eighteen (18) years of age and is not eligible for membership in the parent organization.