The National Association for Uniformed Services (NAUS) protects and enhances the earned benefits of uniformed servicemembers, retirees, other veterans, and their families and survivors, while promoting a strong defense, through nonpartisan legislative advocacy on Capitol Hill. NAUS is a nonprofit military/veterans organization as defined in IRS Code Section 501(c)(19). NAUS membership is open to all grades and ranks, and all branches and components of the uniformed services: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.