Attention Members, Public Affairs and Combat Camera Marines. The USMCCCA Foundation has announced major changes to its Foundation Scholarship program. Now only available to two-year members of the USMCCCA, the Foundation Board has changed that requirement in order to stimulate scholarship applications. Applications will now be considered from: 1. Members of Read more…
The final 2010 issue of “Now Hear This” the official USMCCCA newsletter, should be arriving in your mailbox soon. If you DO NOT receive it, then you need to make sure CCHQ has your correct mailing address. You can MAKE SURE you get future newsletters by using the membership update Read more…
CCHQ tries to run a tight ship and hold expenses down by using bulk mail rates to send member mailings. You can imagine our surprise (read: dismay) when the post office called and we had to pay a hefty penalty because we had (so far) 23 newsletters returned due to Read more…
Between now and June 1 we hope to hear from you. This is one more way you can help your Association maintain programs that assist the various active duty Marines including the Wounded Marine Careers Foundation – a program that retrains our warriors in the skills that each of us might have learned many years ago. Your gifts also help support the scholarship funds for members, dependents, and active duty Marines. Consider also the annual Merit Awards Program that recognizes the achievements of our active duty warriors as well as the professional seminars we offer at each annual Conference. We’re not just your “marching and chowder society” organization. We offer something for both active duty and for our “tribal elders.”
Your gift will be recognized several ways this year: First, your dedication in the annual Conference Journal; second Now Hear This ,your quarterly newsletter and, lastly, continuously on our new website, www.usmccca.org. How can you lose? You will be recognized.
Okay, as many of you know (or not) … for tax purposes and fundraising there are two accounts set up. USMCCCA and USMCCCA Foundation. If you are sending in a check to pay for something, please use the following as the payee. Make payable to: USMCCCA for the following only: Read more…
Okay, CCs. When Gary Cameron’s “Last To Know, First To Go,” the unofficial history of our merry band, hit the streets in the late 1970s, a lot of us started bitching about names left out, happenings that didn’t, and why didn’t he include anything about the unit I was in and why didn’t he use this photo or that. Some of us liked it, some of us didn’t. Most of us have agreed since, that while a monumental effort, a sequel was needed to bring us up to present day and hopefully correct some of the problems of the original book.
Well, here’s your big chance. Thanks to Life Member Agostino “Omar” VonHassell (as general editor), Don Caetano and Life Member publisher, Dave Biesel, St. Johann Press, we’re going to try it again and this time we will get it right – with your help.
Noted writer Ed Breslin, who has worked with such luminaries as W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy, has been named chief editor. The writers and photographers will be you. If you cooperate, Omar and Ed are promising a book that should have good market appeal, both to us and to the general public. Quite frankly: We hope to knock your socks off! (more…)