A Foundation Built Around The Colors
How a joint service color guard grew into a foundation with two national programs and one very short mission statement.
Carry The Colors Foundation
We are a nonprofit that exists to put the American flag, and the people who served under it, in front of the public as often as we can manage.
It began in 2017 as the All American Color Guard, a joint service unit assembled to present the colors properly at events that had been making do without. Demand grew, the roster grew with it, and what started as a color guard turned into something that needed a foundation behind it.
Today the Carry The Colors Foundation runs two programs. The color guard presents the colors. The Star Spangled Performance Program supplies the voices and the music that go with them. Both draw from the same pool of active duty, Reserve, National Guard and veteran members.
Restore Patriotism
It is deliberately short. Here is what it commits us to.
Honors rendered correctly, every time. Uniforms inspected, sequence rehearsed, flag handled the way the code says it is handled. A sloppy detail does more harm than no detail.
Patriotism that only happens in private rooms does not restore anything. We go where people already are: stadiums, parades, town squares, graduations, memorials and funerals.
Every member of a detail is active duty, Reserve, National Guard or an honorably discharged veteran, in the dress uniform they earned. That is not a preference, it is the requirement.
What Runs Under The Foundation
AACG
All American Color Guard
A joint service color guard drawn from every branch. Active duty, Reserve, National Guard and veterans, in the dress uniform they earned.
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SSPP
Star Spangled Performance Program
Service members and veterans who perform the national anthem and ceremonial music alongside the colors.
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Every Branch, One Formation
Joint service is not a slogan for us. Our roster carries members from across the armed forces, and a single detail will often put several branches shoulder to shoulder.
It matters visually and it matters to the people watching. A crowd that sees six different dress uniforms in one line understands something about the country that a speech would take ten minutes to say.
Put The Colors At The Front Of Your Event
Ceremonies, games, parades, memorials, openings, private events. Tell us the date and what the moment calls for, and we will tell you what we can field.