About Vegas Veteran Voices
Vegas Veteran Voices is a Veteran-led nonprofit in Las Vegas, Nevada, founded by U.S. Navy Veteran Brenton Mann and U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Ronnie Long.
It films long-form interviews with Veterans and releases them free on YouTube, records documentary interviews through the Veteran Story Project, records legacy stories for Veterans who want their service kept on record, teaches other nonprofits to produce their own media, and held its first memoir-writing class for Veterans in 2026. Veterans are never charged to be interviewed or filmed.
A Veteran-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Why it matters
Too many Veterans feel invisible once the uniform comes off. The structure disappears, the mission fades, and the world keeps moving while you’re still trying to understand who you are without the rank, the unit or the job title. The silence that follows, the one nobody warns you about, can be overwhelming.
Vegas Veteran Voices exists as a response to that silence. We use storytelling, education and community connection to help rebuild identity after service, one real conversation at a time.
Our story
We exist to support the well-being, identity and reintegration of Veterans through honest storytelling and community connection.
Vegas Veteran Voices is a mission-driven nonprofit, and its long-form interview series is one part of that work: highlighting Veterans who turn pain into purpose and showing that there is life, powerful, messy and deeply human, beyond military service.
Our mission
We empower Veterans by creating space for their stories to be heard. Through educational media and community-driven programming, we highlight the experiences that shape life after service and strengthen public understanding of the Veteran journey.
What we do
We don’t just talk, we show up. Through our Stories Over Stigma campaign, Vegas Veteran Voices creates hands-on storytelling experiences that go beyond the studio. Brenton and Ronnie step into real moments with Veterans, joining the work that rebuilds identity and purpose.
- The stories: long-form interviews with Veterans, released every Friday on YouTube.
- The Veteran Story Project: documentary interviews that preserve Veteran stories.
- Legacy recordings: for Veterans who want their service kept on record. Recorded Veteran to Veteran, to be kept for the National Archives or left with their will.
- Classes for nonprofits: invitation-only group and one-on-one classes that teach other nonprofits to produce their own media.
- Memoir class: our first, held in 2026 with the Neon Museum and Honor Flight, paired Vietnam-era Veterans with a college professor who specializes in memoir writing.
The team
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Brenton Mann
U.S. Navy Veteran
Co-founder, president and executive director
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Ronnie Long
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran
Co-founder, secretary and host; Veteran wellness and community engagement
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“Cheeks” Aguillon
U.S. Army Veteran
Board member and treasurer; director of production and quality assurance
The work so far
Markers from the interview record. Each date is the day that interview was published.
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The first interview
From Empty Rooms to New Beginnings: The Mission of Harvison House | Vegas Veteran Voices -
The 25th
The Woman Navy Pilot Who Became Addicted to History | Jennifer Bennie | A Walk With History -
The 50th
Most Veterans Don’t Know Their Education Benefits, The Man Who’s Helped 9,000 Claim Them -
The most recent
Every Chief Thinks They’re Irreplaceable. He Walked Away at the Top. / Martin Foster USAF
Nonprofit details
Vegas Veteran Voices is a Nevada 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 39-3723611. 4360 W Spring Mountain Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89102. Reach us at host@vegasveteranvoices.com.