Another two decades later, near the ending of the Vietnam War (1961-1975), in Southeast Asia in 1973, the Commission was integrated into the Arizona Department of Economic Security.
Primarily at the request of various veterans’ organizations, the then Governor of Arizona reestablished the Commission as a separate agency in 1982.
In 1999, the Arizona State Legislature separated the Commission from the former level of an agency by reorganizing and making the Commission as an advisory body and creating a separate state Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services, headed by a governor-appointed director with a headquarters in the state capital of Phoenix, and considered a full executive branch department and part of the governor's cabinet.
benefits, two skilled nursing Veteran Home facilities in Phoenix and Tucson to provide short and long term care, one Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Sierra Vista (Cochise County), with additional cemeteries in Northern Arizona and Maran.
provides critical, state-wide coordination and technical assistance to services and organizations serving veterans.