Service & Valor

In every war. In every generation.

Black Americans have served in every conflict this country has fought, from the first blood of the Revolution to today. The coalition honors that record the way we honor everything: with more than words.

The record

The roll call.

1770 · Revolution
Crispus Attucks & the first patriots

Attucks fell first at the Boston Massacre. An estimated 5,000 Black soldiers and sailors served the Revolution.

1863 · Civil War
The United States Colored Troops

Nearly 180,000 men, roughly a tenth of the Union Army, including the storied 54th Massachusetts.

1866 · The frontier
The Buffalo Soldiers

The 9th and 10th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry, the Army's first Black peacetime regiments.

1918 · WWI
The Harlem Hellfighters · 369th Infantry

191 days in continuous combat, more than any other American unit, and the Croix de Guerre from France.

1941 · WWII
Tuskegee Airmen · Montford Point Marines · the 6888th

The Red Tails in the air, the first Black Marines, Doris Miller at Pearl Harbor, and the 6888th Battalion clearing a two-year mail backlog in three months.

1948 · Integration
Executive Order 9981 and after

Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan. Black Americans have served at rates above their share of the population for generations.

Today
The tradition holds

Roughly one in five active-duty service members is Black. The record has never broken.

More than words

How the coalition honors service.

On the ledger

The Service insignia

Verified veterans and active-duty members carry the Service mark on their permanent record. It cannot be bought, only earned before you ever joined.

On the roster

Honored numbers

Member numbers carrying the record are reserved in perpetuity for decorated veterans, one per number, awarded, never sold.

#1770 · Attucks#54 · Massachusetts#369 · Hellfighters#6888 · Central Postal#9981 · Integration
In the economy

Veteran-owned, front of line

Veteran-owned businesses are flagged across the directory and marketplace, and get priority in venture staffing, contracts, and the deal room.

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Veteran status verified once at onboarding · details illustrative for this prototype.