1. Contact a member of the chapter and find out when we're riding next.
2. Hang around the club for awhile to determine if you like what you see. We need to get to know you too. We'll have to vote as a club to assign you Prospect status.
3. Tell someone in the club that you'd like to be a member.
4. Fill out and turn in the membership application provided to you by the club. Include a copy of you DD-214.(or Active Duty ID card), Drivers License with motorcycle Endorsement.
5. You will be nominated for Prospect status at the next club meeting.
6. If the club has seen you around enough to think you'd be a good candidate for membership they will vote you in as Prospect (Prospective Member).
7. Membership fee will be collected upon your acceptance for Prospect Status.
8. Our National Representatives will verify your Military Service and supply you Prospect Rocker (Military Veterans/ top rocker only).
9. A evaluation will be conducted 6-8 weeks after your acceptance as a Prospect. (Bottom Rocker will be presented if your performance is judged satisfactory)
10. You will maintain this Prospect status for 3 months to a year.
11. Once the club votes favorably in your behalf, an assessment of your Prospect period will be forwarded to our National Reps for their endorsement.
12. At that point you would be awarded your colors/center patch. (the Eagle, Flags, Wheel).
Once again I have been involved in a disagreement over what "Brotherhood" means. It all came about by listening to how many people use the term. It seems that if you buy a bike, get a leather vest and then go to some event you get to call everyone "Bro or Brother or whatever. To tell the truth except for those of my blood or those wearing my patch no one is "My Brother" period. Hang-a-rounds, prospects, probates, are not my "Brother" and better learn real fast that "Brotherhood" is earned and not given and once earned much is required to maintain. Just my thoughts on the matter and since I do this area I figured I'd share.
By Brother Artful Dodger