The National Association of Guardsmen started in Brooklyn in 1933 by several young men, most of them graduates of Howard University, Lincoln University, and Morgan State College. The objective was to form a club of men with like desires to foster social programs that would include their wives and girlfriends. Never in their wildest dreams did they visualize an association with members from Boston to Los Angeles. The Baltimore Chapter was established in 1934 and is the second only to Brooklyn in longevity.