When nominations for the 2018-19 USMCCCA national slate closed at midnight May 15, a trio of fresh faces emerged unopposed for vacant board positions. “Jason Huffine, Melanie Snarr and Paul Mancuso stepped up,” said nominating chair Mike Frank, “This gives the Association a good mix and some fresh blood during Read more…
Melanie Cunningham is producing a biographical documentary about the American economist Thomas Sowell, to be broadcast on public television. Dr. Sowell was drafted into the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was stationed at Camp Lejeune (’52-’53), where he was part of the Combat Camera unit. Corporal Sowell Read more…
Jessica Rambo, a Combat Camera veteran tells us she is associated with Semper K9, an organization which rescues dogs from shelters and trains them to be service dogs at no cost for disabled service members. Semper K9 is proud to announce the acceptance of service dog in training Perkins into Read more…
The Joe Rosenthal Chapter has lost its former longtime Secretary. GySgt Norbert Malecki passed away May 5, 2018, at his home in Benicia, Calif., just weeks after his 90th birthday.
Then Major Kevin Shea was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004.
Dear Readers,
PFC Thomas J. Bayes, 19, of Whitestone, N.Y., was killed in action in Vietnam, April 7, 1968. A few days after his June 1967 graduation from high school, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Following boot camp, he deployed to Okinawa and from there went to Vietnam.
For the last several years, Paul G. Bayes has sent the obituary of his younger brother, Thomas, into the Leatherneck office, hoping we will publish it in the magazine. Private First Class Thomas J. Bayes was killed in Vietnam while serving with 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines 50 years ago. And his brother, himself a Navy veteran, remembers.
Several of the thousands of awards the Marine Corps Association & Foundation presents each year are namesake awards, presented in honor of outstanding Marines who made a significant impact on the Corps.
One such award is the LtCol Kevin Shea Memorial Unit of the Year Award given in honor of then-Major Shea who was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004.
His wife, Ami, and their children, daughter, Second Lieutenant Brenna Shea, and son, Michael, often attend the award presentation to the deserving unit in honor of their husband and father. They remember.
“Shock and Awe”, scheduled for release on July 13, 2018 is a film based on the true events of Knight Ridder journalists, (including our own Joe Galloway played by Tommy Lee Jones) who were the only ones who “got it right” in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War when Read more…
The USMCCCA’s longest serving executive director was laid to rest with full military honors Monday May 14 at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell. Capt. Jack T. Paxton, USMC (ret) was surrounded by wife Pat and, at times, his entire family during his hospitalization and hospice care in The Villages, Read more…
The Marine Corps Gazette reached back to the the photography of Sgt. Manuel Serrano’s lance corporal days to accompany its May 2018 cover article on the state of Marine Air.
For those of you going to Jack Paxton’s Funeral on Monday, May 14th. I have mapped the 3 stops and you can download and print a text copy or send it to your phone…(funeral, cemetery and reception). There are of few of us staying Sunday and Monday night at the Read more…