The mission of Bedford County Militia, Incorporated is to educate, organize, and train the citizens in Bedford County, Virginia

• in the safe, lawful, and effective use of firearms for personal defense and public safety,
• in the preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and man-made disasters in the fundamentals,
• exercise of the human and civil rights and duties belonging to all members of the community,

so that the local militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, may be well-regulated or put in good working order, such being necessary to the security of a free state and its proper, natural, and safe defense.