Old USMCCCA Logo New USMCCCA Logo As many corporations and businesses do periodically, the Association Board of Directors has approved minor changes to your Association and Foundation logos. The changes, developed by Art Director Chuck Beverage, are minor but offer a presentation that is somewhat 3-dimensional. Sharp eyes will Read more…
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Marines –The New Year brings with it many changes for our Corps. Just last week, the Secretary of Defense rolled out his proposed efficiencies of which many affect our Corps. Read more…
CC Fred Tucker reports starting the new year off right and this photo proves it. Fred make the shot from 275 yards with a 30-06 at 7 a.m. January 1 in Henry County, west Tennessee. Knowing that fellow CCs Red Carpenter and your Executive Director (with Fred in RVN in Read more…
Color footage from the battle of Iwo Jima. The Battle for Iwo Jima was one of the most famous and fiercest battles fought in the Pacific during World War Two and will forever hold a special place in the history of the United States Marine Corps Norm Hatch says: Just Read more…
Former National President Bob McEwen announces he is taking a bit of time out from his world cruises to honcho the Marine Corps Mustangs National Meeting at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, FL September 29-October 2. Knowing that there are quite a few CC and ComCam Mustangs Read more…
Retired GySgt. Benny Marrufo, 75, of Aurora, CO died January 1 of medical complications. Benny enlisted in 1953 and served as a combat correspondent in Vietnam in 1965-66 at the Danang Press Center and again in 1969-70 as a member of the Department of Defense MoPic Team.
National Conference: New Orleans Sept. 12-16 While we have alluded to it in both Now Hear This and on the Tic Toc notes on this website we are now making it official: There will be a conference in New Orleans from September 12-16at the Westin Hotel. Long-time CC Life Member Read more…
Happy New Year. We have had what I would call an exceptional year. If you have read Tom Kerr’s most recent financial report and that of Foundation Treasurer John Dodd, both the Association and Foundation are in excellent financial condition. Our website www.usmccca.org continues to attract attention, both from former CCs Read more…
CCHQ has worked out a special discount plan with Continental Airlines for the annual conference scheduled for New Orleans September 12-16. Continental offers discounts off published fares of 2% to 10% or Zone fares. Call your travel professional or Continental Meeting Works at 800-468-7022 for reservations. In order to get Read more…
CC Steve Stibbens reports: “It is with great sadness I have learned that our friend [Col. Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret)] died in Washington Thursday December 30th in Sibley Memorial Hospital. Greg Zorthian, Barry’s son, an editor at the Financial Times in New York said this morning that both he and brother Steve, also of New York, were with Barry when he passed away. Immediate cause of death was a stapf infection. Barry will be buried at Arlington Cemetery. He was a good Marine and highly respected Public Affairs spokesman in Vietnam during the roughest of times.”
By RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press
Colonel Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret)
Colonel Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret), a colorful U.S. diplomat who left his mark on American policy in Vietnam as a forthright and often combative press spokesman in the early years of the war, has died. Zorthian, 90, died Thursday in a Washington, D.C. hospital where he had been admitted a few days earlier, his son, Greg said. A staph infection was the immediate cause of death.
By his own reckoning, Zorthian was the last surviving member of the original cadre of U.S. diplomats and military leaders whose policy decisions shaped events in America’s longest war.
Dispatched to Saigon in 1964 by then President Lyndon Johnson to defuse an increasingly acrimonious relationship between American officials and news correspondents covering the war, Zorthian used a mixture of charm, sly wit and uncommonly straight talk in trying to establish credibility for the U.S. effort.