Bones
2023-01-01
The Red & Tan Nation is proud to select Hicks Strong as our national sponsored charity this year. Each fundraising event this year will donate a minimum of 15% of all net proceeds to Hicks Strong, regardless of the primary purpose of the fundraiser. Some events may donate all net proceeds.
Hicks Strong (click to open a new page) is an organization dedicated to providing therapy to service members and veterans via telehealth to allow the service member or veteran to receive quality health care without leaving their home. They provide workshops on suicide prevention and provide education on various mental health issues such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation.
2021-02-17
In April of 2018, the Red & Tan Nation met the Rogue Syndicate Car Club, a veteran-based organization focusing on driving and wrenching cars. The two organizations identified their shared values, and a year later, the Rogue Syndicate Car Club joined the Red & Tan Nation as an equal co-member club.
The Rogue Syndicate Car Club is a group of motor enthusiasts heavily involved in the automotive community, but we’re much more than just car enthusiasts. We’re brother veterans recognizing we lost something when we separated from the service. We lost the brotherhood, the camaraderie, the esprit de corps, and the irreverent humor that only a veteran understands. Through the Rogue Syndicate, we work to support each other and work through veteran charities and causes to ensure the veteran community realizes the support they deserve. This is what separates us from other car clubs.
2017-02-08
This question has been put to our club a number of times, and frankly, we find it humorous and annoying that people will attempt to become part of us, but then try to dictate their definitions of terms to us. Every year, we get some idiot who follows the same crash-and-burn cycle of trying to demand that his service makes him our brother.
This really gets a bit old, so before you make yourself look foolish, read this. We have a motto: “Brothers in war. Brothers in peace. Desert Era Veterans for Desert Era Veterans.”
We coined this motto for a reason, and it has a meaning to us. If you don’t like our meaning, we’re not particularly concerned - it only goes to prove one thing:
YOU ARE NOT OUR BROTHER.
2017-02-01
Too often, we hear veterans express how they miss the camaraderie and support they had when they were in the military. They don’t identify with the civilian world, and often find themselves resenting the take-it-for-granted, poor-me mentality they encounter outside of the military service. Veterans have an entirely different sense of humor, a take-charge attitude, and an objective approach to life that places results above feelings; this makes them strange to their civilian counterparts. Most of all, in their loneliest of times, veterans wrestle with alligators that civilians will never see, much less, understand. Veterans need veterans.
The Desert Warriors are here to provide that missing camaraderie and support.