It is with great sadness we report that Don O’Neal passed away March 6 at his home. An obit will be added soon. Services will be held: March 17, 0930 at Castle Ridge Mortuary, 8008 Military Rd. W, San Antonio, TX 78227. Telephone: 210 645-6000. Yvette requests no flowers at Read more…
The 2016 USMCCCA Conference and Training Symposium will be held at the Fredericksburg, VA Hospitality House Hotel & Conference Center August 21-26. This conference celebrates our 75th anniversary and we expect a larger than usual turn-out so we recommend booking your room and paying the registration as soon as possible. Read more…
Time to get your entries submitted for the 2016 Visual Information and Excellence in Communication (VIEC), Distinguished Performance Award and Combat Camera Awards. DATES/GENERAL INFORMATION Program year: January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 Award Submission deadline: Feb. 19, 2016 Award judging: Feb. 22, 2016 Award winner announcement: NLT March Read more…
CC Chas Henry has produced a series of brief radio reports for the 25th anniversary of the Gulf War. A Desert Storm veteran himself, he is now a news anchor and national security correspondent. Take a listen: Gulf War 25th Anniversary Features from Westwood One News Reported by National Security Read more…
Our final accounting of an eventful year (2015) can be found in the USMCCCA Annual Journal that went in the mail to all member this afternoon. This year’s cover by award-winning Sgt. Reese Lodder, depicts a poolee performing an initial strength test BEFORE heading off to recruit training. This year’s Read more…
Elsewhere on today’s pages we saw with great pleasure Brian Tuthill promoted to gunnery sergeant while going to college under a Corps’ program that will ultimately see him graduated a second lieutenant. We met this young Marine when he was a corporal at a USMCCCA Conference a number of years Read more…
Congrats to Col. John “Doc” Church, newly named President of Valley Forge Military Academy & College. Press follows: WAYNE, PA – The Board of Trustees of Valley Forge Military Academy & College has unanimously approved the appointment of Colonel John C. Church, Jr., USMCR, as President. Colonel Church will take Read more…
Congratulations to Cpl. Cory C. Schubert for earning Defense Media Activity’s Warrior of the Quarter. He is now stationed at AFN Iwakuni where according to Schubert, “I do a variety of different tasks. I cover the daily production mission along with producing 2 video spots a week and COM CALS. Read more…
CC Paul Younghaus passed away on January 6, 2016, after a lengthy illness.
The History of Marine Corps Combat Correspondents & Combat Camera Marines (A Concept) In the mid-1980s, veteran CC Gary Cameron was commissioned by the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association (USMCCCA) to develop a history of the CCs, broadcasters and photographers from the beginnings in 1941 through the terrorist Read more…