Military reunions

They served together.
That bond deserves a real gathering.

You have been trying to get the unit back together for years. Half the guys changed their number. A few are hard to find. Some are gone. But the ones who are left still remember, and the gathering matters more now than it did 20 years ago. Grove helps you find your people, plan the event, and honor everyone who served.

Start planning your reunion

Start with whoever you have.
The roster builds from there.

You might have a list of 12 names and current contact info for 4 of them. That is fine. Grove lets you create a public reunion page with the unit info, the dates, and the location. Share it in veteran forums, Facebook groups, and with the people you do have. When someone finds the page and RSVPs, the roster grows. One person finds two more. Those two find three. That is how unit reunions come together.

Public invite page

A shareable page with unit details and event info. Anyone with the link can RSVP, no account needed.

Self-building roster

Every RSVP adds to the roster. People share the link and the list grows without the organizer chasing anyone down.

Invite forwarding

When someone RSVPs, they can forward the invite to other people from the unit. The network effect does the work.

Some people will not be there.
Their names should still be.

Every military reunion has a moment for those who did not come home and those who have passed since. The empty chair. The roll call. The toast. Grove's ancestor wall feature becomes a memorial wall for your unit. Upload photos, names, rank, and dates of service. Display it during the event. It becomes part of the permanent record, carried forward to every reunion after.

Memorial wall

Photos, names, and service details for fallen and departed comrades. Displayed during the event and preserved in the archive.

Roll call of the absent

A digital ceremony element. Names read aloud. The record kept. Carried forward to the next gathering.

Voice tributes

Record short audio tributes from attendees. Stories about the people who are not there. Saved for families who might want to hear them.

Permanent record

The memorial wall persists across reunions. New names are added. The record grows. Nothing is forgotten.

Most unit reunions include a ceremony,
not just a meal.

Military reunions often include a formal element: a banquet, a ceremony, a guest speaker, a flag presentation. That means the schedule is not just "show up and eat." There is a program, and it needs to be communicated clearly. Grove's day-of schedule lets you lay out the full event timeline. Attendees see it on the reunion page. Updates happen in real time. Nobody misses the ceremony because they were at the hotel bar.

The stories from that deployment
should not die with the last person who remembers.

Every unit has stories. The ambush outside Fallujah. The helicopter mechanic who saved the mission. The cook who somehow made real food out of nothing. These stories are told at reunions, usually over drinks, and they are almost never written down. Grove's memory vault and voice story features let you capture them. Record the story. Upload the photo. Tag the people who were there. Build an archive that the next generation of the unit can access.

These are not coworkers. This is a different kind of bond.

The people at a military reunion shared something most people never will. They trained together, deployed together, and in many cases depended on each other for their lives. That bond does not fade, even if 30 years pass without contact. The reunion is where it gets renewed. Grove treats that gathering with the weight it deserves. This is not an event management tool. It is a place where a unit's history, its people, and its story are held together.

After the reunion, the record persists.

The photos from the banquet. The group shot outside the hotel. The audio from the keynote. The full roster of who attended. Grove packages all of it into a capsule that lives on after the event. The next organizer gets the contacts, the notes, and the budget breakdown. The unit gets an archive that grows with every reunion. And the families of those who have passed get to see that their person is still remembered.

Keep reading

More reunion planning guides.

The full 12-month reunion guide

Committee, venue, invites, and day-of - adapted easily for a unit reunion.

Reunions by group type

How Grove handles family, class, military, Greek, and more.

Pricing

Transparent pricing for reunion committees and veteran organizations.

How Grove works

The organizer view, the RSVP page, and the archive that persists after.

The unit is still out there. Bring them together.

Free to start. No credit card. Set up the roster and the reunion page in about ten minutes.

Start planning your reunion