About the DAV

The Oklahoma Disabled American Veterans (OK DAV) helps American veterans of all ages lead improved lifestyles - helping them to regain their health, reshape their lives affected by military-related disabilities,  learn new trades or professions, and to rejoin the civilian world. At each step, the OK DAV needs help to help America's veterans in our state.

For three quarters of a century, that aid has come from the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), a nonprofit organization of more than one million veterans disabled during time of war or armed conflict.

Formed in 1920 and chartered by Congress in 1932, the million-member DAV is the official voice of America's service-connected disabled veterans -- a strong, insistent voice that represents all of America's 2.1 million disabled veterans, their families and survivors. Its nationwide network of services -- free of charge to all veterans and members of their families -- is totally supported by membership dues and contributions from the American public. Not a government agency, the DAV receives no government funding. 

 

Our purpose

• Providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other agencies of government;
• Providing outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally, and to disabled veterans and their families specifically;
• Representing the interests of disabled veterans, their families, their widowed spouses and their orphans before Congress, the White House and the Judicial Branch, as well as state and local government;
• Extending DAV’s mission of hope into the communities where these veterans and their families live through a network of state-level Departments and local Chapters; and
• Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.