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. Start with the names you have. Grove gives you a reunion page the unit can pass along, so the roster grows through your own network while you plan the event and honor everyone who served.
Start your reunionStart 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
Anyone who has the page link can pass it along to others 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 In Memoriam list holds the names you choose from your imported tree. Show it on the reunion page during the event, and keep it for every reunion after.
In Memoriam
The fallen and departed comrades you choose to honor, shown on the reunion page during the event and kept with the unit's records.
Roll call of the absent
Put the roll call on the schedule as a ceremony moment, so everyone knows when it happens and is in the room for it.
Stories about them
Share stories about the people who are not there in the unit's private memory archive, where the group can come back to them.
A lasting record
The list 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, and when something moves, you update it in one place. 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 archive lets you capture them. Write the story down. Upload the photo. Build a private 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.
How many came. The moments, shoutouts, and photos from the weekend, which members see when they sign in. The organizer publishes it as a Capsule and emails it to everyone who RSVP'd yes, and it stays in Grove for the unit. The next organizer gets the tasks, the budget categories, the schedule, and a handoff brief. 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 your reunion