Recognizing the needs of the current generation of warriors, the leadership of the NGWRC created a plan for a new service organization. After months of planning and hard work, they announced the establishment of the Veterans of Modern Warfare, Inc. (VMW), a veterans’ service organization formed to serve veterans and members of the armed forces of this modern era.

    Shortly after the initiation of Operations Enduring Freedom / Iraqi Freedom, we realized the mission of the NGWRC must change to include the veterans that have participated in the Global War on Terror.  Although the missions of these deployments are different, issues such as mass-vaccinations, depleted uranium exposures, and post-traumatic stress are commonly shared by Persian Gulf War and Global War on Terror veterans alike.

 Nothing is wrong with Am Vets, American Legion, VFW, DAV, PVA, or any other large veteran’s organization.  We encourage our own members to join, support, and participate in other veterans organizations with a broader mandate.  Other post WW II veterans have benefited from having an organization for their own generation’s specific needs; Korean Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, and Cold War Veterans each have an organization specific to their time of service, and those organizations help focus the agendas of the rest on the specific needs of their generation.

 VMW is that organization for the post-Cold-war generation.  There is no organization doing this effectively yet, and the NGWRC was as close as we had up to this point.  NGWRC formed VMW to meet this unmet need, and to cooperate with the broader veterans organizations in helping the new generation

The formation of Veteran’s of Modern Warfare does not mean that the National Gulf War Resource Center will no longer exist; quite the opposite.  Since 1995, the mission of the NGWRC has been to support an international coalition of advocates, organizations, and members by providing information, support, and referrals for all those concerned with the complexities of Persian Gulf War issues, e.g. Gulf War Illness.