The Morongo reservation is located in Riverside County, near Palm Springs and the Morongo tribe owns and operates a casino in Cabazon, California. The Morongo Branch of the First Californian Division was opened on Februand operates to serve the members of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and their employees. The First Californian Division of American United was founded to “serve the underserved” members of tribal organizations in Southern California. The VAMCU Branch continues to serve both credit union members and shared branching members at its location on the VA Medical Center campus, at 500 South Foothill Drive in Salt Lake City, Utah. Following this expanded charter and accompanying the merger with BluesPlus FCU, the Credit Union’s name was again changed to American United Family of Credit Unions Federal Credit Union. In 2005, the NCUA granted a community charter, thereby expanding the credit union’s membership to include all of Salt Lake County (Tooele County was later added in 2016). The name VAMCU was derived from Veteran Affairs Medical Credit Union, emphasizing the credit union’s primary membership of the VA Medical Center. In 1980, the credit union’s name was changed to VAMCU Federal Credit Union. Later, a second floor was added to the building, which formerly served as the corporate offices for American United. The credit union quickly outgrew the small space and during the 1970s moved to the current location of the VAMCU branch, between buildings 4 and 5 on the VA Medical Center Campus. The primary focus of the credit union was to serve the employees of Fort Douglas and the VA Medical Center.

Originally founded in 1952 as the Fort Douglas VA Hospital Federal Credit Union, the credit union began serving members out of a small room inside the VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Morongo casino commercial 2018