Congressionally chartered in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of America maintains a Point Loma presence at the Pacific Highway campus in the Midway District San Diego, co-located with the veteran service infrastructure operated by Veterans Village. San Diego County's Chapter 472, organized as a 501(c)(19) veterans organization, has served the region for more than 32 years through disability-claims advocacy, Agent Orange health education, and the same Stand Down co-production that anchors the annual programming at Veterans Village of San Diego's rehabilitation campus next door. Town hall meetings on Agent Orange exposure inform Vietnam-era veterans and their spouses about latent cancer risks, screening protocols, and VA healthcare eligibility tied to herbicide-related presumptive conditions. The chapter's Speakers Bureau deploys combat veterans from infantry, riverine-warfare advisory, naval, and aviation backgrounds to deliver first-person testimony at high schools, universities, and civic organizations across San Diego County. VVA's founding principle—that no generation of veterans should abandon another—drives participation in memorial ceremonies at peninsula military sites near Cabrillo National Monument Foundation's stewardship area, adjacent to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. The chapter's most complex annual commitment is co-producing Stand Down, a multi-day homeless-veteran intervention that stages medical screenings, legal aid, employment counseling, housing placement, and VA benefits enrollment for hundreds of participants in a single location.