Founded in 1976 as Tin Can Sailors, The National Association of Destroyer Veterans is transitioning to the more descriptive acronym DesVets. We serve our 13,000 members nationwide with a quarterly magazine, a National Reunion, and several regional events. We also support individual ship reunions through our Reunion Services Program. Through the Thomas J. Peltin Destroyer Museum Grant Program we have provided more than $2 Million in grants to the museum destroyers in the U.S. We accept all as members but the primary focus is on those who served in all forms of destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, destroyer minelayers and minesweepers, destroyer tenders and repair ships, and now littoral combat ships.