Who’s Welcome?

U.S. Navy Active Duty and drilling Reserve Cryptologists.
Cryptologic Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Coast Guard Reservists.
Retired and Separated National Guard and Air National Guard cryptologic personnel.
Surviving Spouses of former cryptologists.

Others may apply for membership as an Associate Member, pending review and approval by the Membership Secretary.

Benefits of Membership

Through your membership, you:

Renew friendships with shipmates online and at our annual reunions.
Sponsor qualified young scholars in the annual Captain Laurance Safford Scholarship program.
Encourage and support preservation of the history of Naval Cryptology.
Actively support the U.S. Navy Joseph N. Wenger Cryptologic Command Display.

CRYPTOLOG

When you join the U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association, you enjoy access to the current and back issues of our quarterly journal, CRYPTOLOG (you must be logged in first!).

You will find Sea Stories and personal Navy Cryptology histories as well as insightful recollections of national and Navy events in each issue of CRYPTOLOG, which has been compiled, edited, and published by the Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association since 1978 — 46 years in all.

CRYPTOLOG costs the U.S. NCVA between $3,500 and $4,000 USD quarterly to produce. We work hard to contain the cost per member to approximately $3.00 per issue. Yes, our journal is compiled and edited by individual members who volunteer their time — over 60 hours per issue — and skills for the task and we primarily use USPS bulk-mail to ship them to you. (You can also login on your website and download issues to your device.)

In 2002, George P. McGinnis, an NCVA founding member, reminded us that: “CRYPTOLOG is the thread that binds us as an organization.” CRYPTOLOG depends upon members, such as you, to send your stories to be published for others to enjoy and allow us to further our effort to record and preserve the history of U.S. Navy Cryptology.

Attention—Active Duty & Reserve Navy Cryptologists!

The U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association offers dues-free one-year membership!

Go to the Sign Up form.
Complete the form—Specifically identify your Command in the “Cryptologic Duty Station” field.
Click the Sign Up button.
Confirm your e-mail address per the auto-generated message that will be shortly sent to you.
When your receive the “Welcome Aboard!“ message, you can login to your new Account Profile.
Please go to the bottom of your Profile and click the Members | Pay Your Dues link.
Select the Active Duty/Reserve Member (12 Months) option.
Confirm the information pulled from your Profile in the resulting form—do not fill in any blank fields!
Accept our Terms and Conditions.
Click the Checkout button.

There is no charge associated with this Dues "plan"—it’s the tool we use to keep our Membership Secretary up-to-date with new member information so that you will receive your copy of CRYPTOLOG and be eligible for other membership benefits.

Regular U.S. NCVA Membership

Check our rules governing membership.
Sign Up for U.S. NCVA Membership.
Create your Profile.
Confirm your email address.
Login and select a Dues Plan.
Pay your dues online.

Associate Membership

If you are not a current or former U.S. Navy cryptologist but want to join as an Associate, download, print, complete your Membership Application and send it to the Membership Secretary via email though his Contact Form or by USPS mail at:

U.S. NCVA Membership Secretary
PO Box 970
Bandera, TX 78003