a)      To promote and foster the comradeship and friendship brought about through service in Vietnam.

b)      To provide opportunities for members to maintain and strengthen bonds and renew friendships, through holding regular reunions, publication of newsletters, and maintaining rosters of Association members.

c)      To provide appropriate recognition to those comrades-in-arms who are no longer with us.

d)      To provide a link between the Association, and its successor organizations, to include those higher military commands (and successors) to which association members were assigned.

e)      To proclaim and publish the traditions and achievements of D Company, 2^nd Battalion, 8^th Cavalry, 1^st Cavalry Division.

f)       To provide financial assistance by means of the Foundation of the Angry Skipper Association® toward the education of selected categories of persons as designated by the Association, from time to time.

g)      To sponsor or provide the membership with other benefits and activities that are normally available to fraternal organizations and which are consistent with the purposes and objectives as set forth above.

h)      The Association shall be nonpolitical, nonpartisan, and nonsectarian.  It shall issue no capital stock and shall not be operated for the purpose of making a profit and shall not declare dividends to the members of the Association.

i)        All funds, whether income or principal, and whether acquired by gift or contribution or otherwise, shall be devoted to said aforementioned purposes.