About the Nevada Military Support
Alliance
The mission of the Nevada Military Support Alliance is to organize and promote the recognition and support of Nevada’s Men and Women of our Armed Forces, Veterans and their Families.
History
In an effort to offer a new level of support and coordinated
integration to all Nevadans presently serving, or those who
have served in the military, leaders of the Nevada Patriot
Fund and the Nevada Military Support Alliance merged the two
entities into one comprehensive support organization, The
Nevada Military Support Alliance, in February 2010.
The Nevada Patriot Fund, created
in 2003 and endorsed by Gov. Kenny Guinn and several key Nevada
business leaders, was designed to provide financial assistance
to families of Nevada military personnel who were killed in
the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. To date the fund
has provided more than $500,000 in financial support to the
families of 52 patriots.
The Nevada Military Support Alliance,
a civilian-led effort to provide various support services
to members of the military, and to military organizations
within the state, was one of the primary recommendations made
by the Nevada Military Blue Ribbon Panel, a group created
by Gov. Jim Gibbons in 2008 to review new mission options
and other aspects of the Nevada Military Department. That
panel was chaired by the current Adjutant General of Nevada,
Brig. Gen. Bill Burks.
The leaders of The Nevada Patriot
Fund and the Nevada Military Support Alliance, recognizing
that the missions of their organizations overlapped and neither
offered the full slate of services Nevada’s soldiers,
sailors, marines or airmen require, decided to combine both
organizations to create a single entity that will offer an
unprecedented level of assistance to Nevada’s military
members and their families.
Board of Directors
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