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Hello CCs: I am participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Did you know that every three minutes, another woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer? I didn’t, and I was shocked to learn how prevalent this horrible disease has become in this country. I am Read more…

Combat Correspondent Aaron Mankin is named as one of People Magazine’s 2010 Heroes of the Year in the Nov. 8 issue of People magazine on the newsstands now. Mankin, a Marine journalist was seriously injured when the assault vehicle he was riding it was destroyed by an improvised explosive device Read more…

The following Commands and Marines have been selected by HQMC DIVPA to receive merit awards for professional excellence in print and broadcast journalism. The first-place recipient in all Broadcast categories and print categories a throughout will represent The Marine Corps in the 2009 DOD-wide Thomas Jefferson awards Program.

Print Winners

Metro Format Newspaper
First: Camp Lejeune Globe
Second: Yuma Desert Warrior
Honorable Mention: Camp Pendleton Scout
Honorable Mention: HawaII Marine

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So it’s been a little over a year since we re-launched the website for the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association. During that time we have published 347 stories, created 64 pages, and had 94 comments. The chart above tells you how many visitors we’ve had per month. Special Read more…

Marietta, Ga. Kiwanis Club members, Sally Macaulay, left, and CC Victoria Turney place a smaller-scale copy of a statue called ‘Forever Remember’ to honor the families of Americas heroes at the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art. Macaulay, the museum’s executive director, and Turney, president of the Kiwanis Club of Marietta, are part of a club project to put a full-size version of the statue in a park on Roswell Street in downtown Marietta. (Photo by Staff/Mike Jacoby)

by Joe Kirby
Marietta Daily Journal Columnist

Marietta, Ga. is the final resting place of thousands of dead from the country’s wars of the past 150 years, and the county also is home to a national park that preserves the scene of one of the Civil War’s bloodier battles. Smyrna and Acworth have veterans’ memorials. But Cobb’s uniformed heroes of past and present – as well as their loved ones who have waited, watched and worried – will soon be honored with a singular, central and highly visible memorial.

British poet John Milton wrote that “They also serve who only stand and wait.” His reference was to the wives and families of those who go to war, but his remarks are just as apt about those whose loved ones are serving as police officers, firefighters, EMTs or ambulance drivers. And they – the families of our military, past and present, and those whose family members are “first responders” – are those who will be honored by a memorial statue to be erected next year on Roswell Street by the Marietta Kiwanis Club.

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SSgt. Luis Agostini with Afghan children while on patrol in an Afghan village.
(Photo by SSgt. Luis Agostini)

Staff Sgt. Luis Agostini of Haverstraw, a combat correspondent for the Marines, recently was deployed to Afghanistan and has been writing about his experiences for The Journal News and LoHud.com. He was deployed in August 2004 to Anbar province in Iraq, where he covered the battle of Fallujah. Agostini graduated from North Rockland High School in 1999. He and Marine Sgt. Heidi E. Loredo were married Sept. 11.

By SSgt Luis Agostini, LoHud.com

Marines throughout Afghanistan spent their Thanksgiving in different ways. Some spent it training and patrolling alongside the Afghan army and police. Others spent it enjoying a Thanksgiving meal with our commandant, Gen. James T. Conway, and our sergeant major, Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent. They are the top Marine leaders of the corps, and they came to visit their Marines throughout Afghanistan.

A few weeks after I came back from visiting the Marine I am supervising with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, I headed to another part of the country to see one of my younger guys, Lance Cpl. Dwight Henderson, a combat correspondent attached to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, at Forward Operating Base Delhi, Afghanistan.

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Deputy Director of Public Affairs (and CC), LtCol. Matt Mclaughlin, pinch hit for DirPa, Col. Bryan Salas at a special DINFOS session Oct. 23, 2009. Initiated by former school commandant, Navy Capt. Curry Graham, every 60-member Public Affairs Qualification Class meets in a lecture/Q&A setting with senior public affairs leadership Read more…

The Marine Corps encourages all those who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune before 1987 to register to receive notifications regarding Camp Lejeune Historic Drinking Water. Please encourage family or friends who were at Camp Lejeune during this period to also join the Notification Registry. The Department of the Navy Read more…

SSgt. Amy Forsythe, LtCol. Chris Hughes and GySgt. Matt Butler from the First Marine Expeditionary Force’s Public Affairs Office at Camp Pendleton attended the Public Relations Society of America’s Annual Awards event in New York City, June 4, 2009. The I MEF PAO team won second place in the Multicultural Read more…