National Steering Committees are advisory bodies to the campaign. Frankly, they are more useful for their PR value than as operating bodies. Individual members, though, may have a more active role (for example, steering member Col. Joe Acinapura is Chairman of the Vermont Republican State Committee). Because it is about PR, Col. Cordier was apparently sacrificed to avoid the inevitable media spin.
The National Steering Committee for Veterans has some 60 members, ranging from sergeants to generals, and including veterans of World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and the War on Terror. It includes disabled veterans, Medal of Honor winners and, even without Col. Cordier, former POWs. For those here with a more SOF frame of mind, it includes former top SEAL RADM George Worthington and CMOH Winner Col. Roger Donlon.
The link below is to a list from when the Steering Committee was announced with brief bios. It also includes a list of the 48 "Medal of Honor Recipients for Bush-Cheney '04".
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/bush/bushorgvet.html
In the interests of objectivity I should note that the Kerry campaign might be able to produce similar lists, though I can't find any on johnkerry.com. There is an open letter from eight retired generals attacking the redeployment plan, though. The veterans page has a list of "Veterans for Kerry-Edwards State Coordinators", but these are party activists and there are only e-mail addresses. That would be a step below a steering committee (the Bush campaign also has state veterans coordinators).
There are plenty of websites along the lines of "Veterans for Bush", "Veterans Against Bush" and "Veterans Against Kerry", though, oddly, hardly any "Veterans for Kerry" (
www.vets4kerry.com and
www.vetsforkerry.com redirect you to the Kerry campaign website). Most of these websites, though, are likely just a small number of grassroots activists. Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, for example, is mainly the work of A-363 Mike Force vet and POW/MIA activist Ted Sampley and two other vets.