It is an apartment house designed to give its occupants security as well as dignity, coupled with the opportunity to make or to renew friendships among those who also have led lives in the military service. However, almost all of the residents, of Vinson Hall, enjoy enormous variety of amenities made available to them by management and many activities and entertainments organized by the residents themselves.
Management provides daily bus service to the shopping area across the road.
Once a week there is a trip to various areas in downtown McLean. There are also scheduled trips each week to the commissary at Fort Myer and to one of the large shopping malls in the area, as well as to the large Marine Post Exchange at Henderson Hall. The bus is available for passengers to the Bethesda Naval Hospital on an almost daily basis. The Vinson Hall bus is also made available for a small fee from each occupant for trips to Kennedy Center, to various theatres, to Wolf Trap and to other entertainments, such as concerts or travelogues as planned by residents. The First Virginia Bank's Chesterbrook branch sends a teller across to Vinson hall five mornings a week to cash checks for residents or take deposits.