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Membership in the Corporation shall be without
regard to age, race, color, creed, gender, national origin,
ethnicity or disability.
ELIGIBILITY - The REGULAR MEMBERSHIP in the Corporation shall be
limited to present or former Navy and Marine Corps personnel, Navy
Civil Service personnel or Support Contractor personnel who:
Were attached to a Naval or Marine Corps command and whose primary
responsibility with Nuclear Weapons includes any of the following:
1. Depot,
Intermediate or Organizational Level Maintenance, Repair or Storage of
Nuclear Weapons, or
2. Nuclear
Weapons Safety, Nuclear Weapons Security or Personnel Reliability Program (PRP)
management, Nuclear Weapons Administrative support, or Nuclear
Weapons Technical Inspections.
Excepted from eligibility are duties solely involving
accident/incident response, aircraft loading teams, aircraft pilots,
guard force or reaction force activities, ordnance handling teams,
submarine crew members and transshipment teams.
Other classes of membership in the Navy Nuclear Weapons Association
are:
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LIFE Member. Automatically bestowed
on the surviving spouse (widows and widowers) of a REGULAR
member. All dues and fees are waived. LIFE members have no
voting rights.
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HERITAGE Member.
Heritage
individuals are defined as ancestors or lineal descendants.
Specifically, these individuals must be related to a past or
present Association REGULAR member in good standing. If related
to a Past Regular Member who has passed, the Past Member must
have been a member in good standing at the time of passing.
HERITAGE members are considered as being related to an
Association member within two degrees of consanguinity (i.e.,
grandparent, brother, sister, grandchildren represent the most
distant allowable relationships). HERITAGE member will have no
voting rights.
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ASSOCIATE Member. Individual who do
not meet the previous stated membership requirements may be
consider for ASSOCIATE membership. These members must be
recommended by at least one REGULAR member in good standing and
must have paid the appropriate dues and fees set by the
Corporation. Such members will have no voting rights. The
total number of ASSOCIATE memberships allowed by IRS regulations
currently restrict these types of membership to a total of 2.5%
of total membership.
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HONORARY Member. The Board of
Directors may bestow to an individual, organization or business
that has made a significant contribution in furtherance of the
Corporation’s objective and purposes an HONORARY membership.
All dues and fees are waived. Such members will have no voting
rights.
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