In the year 1999, the Combat Vets Motorcycle Club was introduced to the internet. Up until the first part of 2001, many of us were led to believe it was a true and established motorcycle organization. Through many turns of events, it was found out that Combat Veteran's Motorcycle Club (CVMC) was an internet scam to milk money from combat veterans. In the early months of 2001, many of the members found this scam out & alerted one another. Since we were all interested in the issues of veterans, 45 members decided to form a Combat Veterans Association.  After this had been decided, the birth of CVMA® appeared as a nonprofit association on or about May 1st, 2001 & we now will be able to continue with our main objective which is helping veterans. The 2 main things that brought us together was motorcycle riding & being veterans from combat zones or theaters. The original 45 members have adopted a patch to wear indicating that they are the original founding fathers of CVMA®.

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     In May of 2001, the CVMA® adopted the CVMA®/VFW patch. This was done with the VFW's ok as all CVMA® members were or became VFW members and entitled to wear the VFW patch. Over the next year and a half, the CVMA® was well accepted at Post and Division levels with the VFW. Many meetings, conversations, and letters over this period with the VFW National always sounded positive but with no results of developing a relationship.  In December 2002 the CVMA® membership voted to move on towards the association it wanted to be.  Along with this VFW membership was no longer required opening the CVMA® up to all Combat Veterans who ride a motorcycle.

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     On December 15, 2002, it was voted the CVMA® would wear a combination of the CVMA® background and the old skull logo as a one piece patch. Membership requirements being a new member had to be a combat veteran and ride a motorcycle as a hobby. This patch is worn by full combat members only.

 

     Although Kansas City, Missouri is the birth place and the original charter (MO 4, now MO 4-1) of the CVMA®, the state of Kentucky (1) was the first to submit paperwork for charter, then Massachusetts (2), Colorado (3), and Missouri (4), in that order. All four states had submitted by-laws almost simultaneously. Now over 20 years later, the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association® continues to grow as a proud organization with membership spanning across the globe in support of one common goal, Combat Veterans taking care of Combat Veterans.

     

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