We were the first National Service Organization Chartered by an Act of Congress to exclusively represent the WATERBORNE SERVICES.

As an active member or former sea service veteran, an opportunity to voice your opinions in matters of National Defense, particularly with respect to the strength and well-being of the UNITED STATES NAVY.

Your membership would give NCUSA the added impetus in total members necessary to voice opinions and objectives to our Congress with regards to their philosophies and actions on MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY, COMPENSATIONS, and RETIREMENT FORMULAS.

NCUSA as a member of the secretary of the Navy's NAVY-MARINE CORPS COUNCIL, composed of 18 Navy oriented organizations, can better serve the Council's objectives by and through a large membership of its own.

Another project in which NCUSA has involved itself, began in 1975. VADM Emmett Tidd, who was the Commanding Officer of the Navy Recruiting Command, devised a plan whereby the top Navy Recruiters from each recruiting area across the country, be invited to Washington, D.C., along with their wives, for a week of R & R. This program is now called the R.O.Y. (Recruiter of the Year)

In 1976, NCUSA started another project to assist the Navy Recruiting Command and the Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois . It was the consensus of NCUSA that a seaman recruit, as selected by the honors committee of the Great Lakes Center , be given the Navy Club of the U.S.A. ‘Military Excellence Award’ each week that the center held a graduation ceremony. Our recipients receive a wrist watches which has the NCUSA emblem on the face of the watch. Each and every person attending the graduation ceremonies is informed that NCUSA sponsors this award, which gives our organization publicity, and at the same time honors a deserving  graduating recruit.

To join together in comradeship to honor those who serve our Country well in the SEABORNE SERVICES, both past and present.