AMVETS is a private veterans organization. Several membership types are available. Both annual and lifetime membership types are available.
As a private club, membership is required for entry to our Post.
Questions about memberships or applications?
Please call the post at 302-945-0406 and we’d be happy to help explain the process and requirements for membership. All final applications must be either brought to the post or mailed to the post with a method of payment. Online applications are not available at this time.
Veteran Membership
AMVETS members enjoy savings and benefits from our many partners and participate in post activities for fun, community service, and to help fellow veterans across many aspects of life. AMVETS is a veterans service organization open to anyone who is currently serving, or who has honorably served, in the U.S. Armed Forces including the National Guard and Reserves.
Any person who served or is currently serving in the Armed Forces of the United States of America at any time after Sept. 15, 1940, is eligible for regular membership in AMVETS, provided such service—when terminated by discharge or release from active duty—is by honorable discharge, honorable separation or general discharge under honorable conditions, based on the most recent discharge.
What is required to join? A completed AMVETS Application for Membership & a legible copy of discharge paperwork showing honorable discharge.
Ladies Auxiliary Membership
Eligibility for membership in the AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary shall be limited to the mothers, wives, grandmothers, regardless of age, and to the daughters, stepdaughters (a stepdaughter must have been a dependent of an AMVET or deceased veteran prior to their eighteenth birthday to be eligible), sisters and granddaughters, not less than 18 years of age, of regular members of AMVETS; and to the mothers and widows, regardless of age, and to the daughters, sisters and granddaughters (of a veteran serving after September 15, 1940 or later), not less than 18 years of age, of deceased veterans who would have been eligible for membership in AMVETS, and female veterans who served honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States after September 15, 1940, or as an American Citizen in the Armed Forces of Allied countries after September 15, 1940, and before May 8, 1975, who maintain their AMVET membership unless they meet the established eligibility criteria. The term mother shall be construed to include any female member of the family, or any female guardian of such person or deceased veteran, who has exercised or is exercising the care and responsibility for the rearing of such person or deceased veteran. The term granddaughter may include great granddaughter.
What is required to join? A completed Ladies Auxiliary Application for Membership & a legible copy of relatives discharge paperwork showing honorable discharge.
Sons of AMVETS Membership
Eligibility for membership in the Sons of AMVETS shall be limited to all male descendants, grandsons, adopted sons, stepsons, fathers, husbands, widowers and brothers of members of AMVETS, and deceased members of AMVETS, or service personnel who died and would have been eligible for membership in the parent AMVET organization, and are at least eighteen (18) years of age and is not eligible in the parent organization. This is not to include in-laws of any type.
What is required to join? A completed Sons of AMVETS Application for Membership & a legible copy of relatives discharge paperwork showing honorable discharge.