SSA is a fraternal membership organization, set up primarily to serve those members and their families. It’s also the only membership organization in the world that represents the Marine Scout Sniper community. That carries a serious obligation to represent our brothers and their families with the utmost respect and transparency. Knowing MSSHF would need to bring specialists onboard who may not be Scout Snipers (like professional researchers, archivists, fundraisers and others) to accomplish the MSSHF mission, and MSSHF is NOT a membership organization, we wanted to create a “backstop” so that Marine Scout Snipers would always be in control of the process. Creating MSSHF to be a subsidiary of SSA ensures that Marine Scout Snipers will ultimately have control of creating the memorial to honor our fallen brothers and their families.