At Combined Arms, we see it every day. Service doesn't stop when the uniform comes off. It takes a new shape. The veterans and families in our network are coaching teams, starting businesses, checking on neighbors, showing up for their communities in a hundred quiet ways. They never stopped serving. They brought it home.
Today, we're launching Civic After Service, to connect veterans and their families to trusted, nonpartisan resources to participate in civic life: registering to vote, serving as a poll worker, finding reliable election information they can count on.
The idea behind Civic After Service is to make staying engaged easy. We bring civic participation into the places veterans already turn to us for support, instead of asking them to go find it.
So we're building it into our platform. When a member logs in to access benefits and resources, they'll see one simple question: Are you registered to vote? From there, we connect them straight to the tools to check their status, register, or find their polling place. We're bringing that same question to our community food distributions, too. A veteran picking up groceries for their family deserves the same easy on-ramp to their voice in our democracy as anyone else.
Veterans don't need to be convinced that participation matters. The data shows they're already among the most civically engaged people in the country.
In the 2024 election, 80.2% of veterans were registered to vote, compared to 73.1% of non-veterans, and 72.1% of veterans cast a ballot, compared to 64.8% (U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, November 2024). Veterans turn out, they volunteer, and they lead, carrying the same sense of duty into their communities that defined their time in uniform.
Our elections need that right now. More than 770,000 Americans served as poll workers in 2024, but fewer than 1 in 6 were under 40, and nearly half of election offices reported difficulty recruiting enough workers (U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 2024). The EAC has said veterans' "leadership, discipline, and commitment make them invaluable to strengthening the integrity of the voting process." We want to help make that connection.
Civic After Service is for everyone who served. Through our SIV & Allies program, we hold quarterly voter education sessions for underserved communities, including minority veterans and Special Immigrant Visa recipients and Allies who served alongside U.S. forces and are now building lives here at home.
This is already happening. In March 2026, our SIV & Allies Civic Engagement workshops reached 115 participants across three sessions, covering how to register, how elections work, the three levels of government, and how to find trustworthy civic information. Those sessions will continue every quarter.
Civic After Service is strictly nonpartisan. We don't support or oppose any party or candidate. Our only goal is to make sure veterans and their families have the information, resources, and opportunities to participate with confidence and combat misinformation.
Learn more and get started at combinedarms.us/civic-after-service.
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Combined Arms (CA) is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to transforming the way veterans and military families connect with vetted resources needed to thrive across the nation. Through innovative technology and informed data analytics, the Combined Arms platform unites top-tier veteran service organizations, state and federal agencies, and communities with data-fueled insights. For more information, visit CombinedArms.us.