Welcome to the Alexander American Legion Post 170 Inc. web site.

We meet the third Thursday of each month at CAPT'N PETE'S SEAFOOD AND STEAK

1200 NC Hwy 90 East, Taylorsville, NC at 7 pm.

  Contact us at:

  PO Box 1616, Taylorsville, NC 28681                                                                         legionpost170@yahoo.com 

  Post Adjutant:   (828) 632-5191  (h)  (704)  517-2941  (c)

Mission:     We, the members of Alexander Post 170, are committed to serving and contributing to our community and assisting the veterans, their families and the youth that are a part of our community. We strive, also, to raise awareness of our POW's and MIA's. We shall also foster a positive and productive relationship between our veterans and the community around us.     

  Who We Are

The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans organization. A community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women--in nearly 15,000 American Posts worldwide. These Posts are organized into 55 Department -- one each for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines.

The American Legion's national headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, with additional offices in Washington, DC. In addition to thousands of volunteers serving in leadership and program implementation capacities in local communities to the Legion's standing national commissions and committees, the national organization has a regular full-time staff of about 300 employees. Alexander American Legion Post was Chartered in 1947 as the first Legion Post in Alexander County

Eligibility For Membership

    Membership eligibility in The American Legion is based on honorable federal active duty service for at least one day with the U.S. Armed Forces  between the following dates:

April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918 (World War I)

December 7, 1941 to December 31, 1946 (World War II)

June 25, 1950 to date to be determined if you served 30 days consecutively or sum total of 30 days in Korea.  (Korean War)

February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975 (Vietnam War)

August 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984 (Lebanon/Grenada)

December 20, 1989 to January 31, 1990 (Operation Just Cause-Panama)

August 2, 1990 to date to be determined (Operation Desert Shield/Storm, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom)

        Because eligibility dates remain open, all members of the U.S. Armed Forces are eligible to join The American Legion at this time, until the date of end of hostilities as determined by the government of the United States