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…
Thomas Jefferson Broadcast Media Winners Video News Report Cpl. Marcin Platek, Marine Forces Reserve, New Orleans, La. Kotzebue Discount Shamen Video Series Lance Cpl. Clayton Filipowicz, Defense Media Activity – Marine Corps Production, Ft. Meade, MD. With The Gear: New and Traditional Media Winners Civilian Enterprise News Production Marine Corps Read more…
“The Lou Lowery Award” – LCpl. Jason Morrison is presented the Leatherneck Magazine Lou Lowery award August 16 for best photo appearing in the magazine during 2012 by lst Marine Division CG Maj. Gen. Lawrence D. Nicholson. Shown in the background is Sgt. Maj. Frank Pulley, Area Representative for the Read more…
Distinguished author and combat reporter Francis J. “Bing” West is winner of the 2013 Brig. General Robert L. Denig Sr. Memorial Distinguished Performance Award. A former Marine Corps combat officer in Vietnam, Bing West is author of six non-fiction books and one novel of Marines at war; from Vietnam through Read more…
Print Categories Tabloid Format Newspaper Okinawa Marine Magazine Format Publication Pass in Review Newsletter Format Publication The Convoy Outstanding Flagship Publication Marines Magazine Personality Feature Article Cpl Bryan Nygaard Marines “Illinois Corpsman works with Combat Engineers, proves his worth in Garmsir” Commentary SSgt Mark Fayloga Marines “Goodbye ‘Birth Control Glasses’” Read more…
Readers of Marines Blog voted, and 2012’s Corps Top Shot comes from member Cpl. Reece Lodder. Corporal Reece Lodder, a combat correspondent, captured this photo in January 2012 while helping to clear houses of insurgent activity during Operation Tageer Shamal (Pashto for “Winter Offensive”) in Helmand province, Afghanistan. After being Read more…
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation continues to accept submissions for its Annual Awards Program until the January 9, 2013 deadline. Artists, writers, photographers, videographers and journalists are encouraged to submit their own work or the distinguished work of another for consideration in the annual Awards program. The Foundation recognizes superior Read more…
The 2012 USMCCCA Foundation President’s Award was belatedly presented to John and Dale Dodd on November 16 during ceremonies at the Defense Information School, Fort Meade, MD. Executive Director Jack Paxton, subbing for Foundation President Don O’Neal, made the dual presentation to John for his service as Treasurer and to Read more…
Dr. Linda Canup Keaton-Lima, winner of the 2012 Denig Award
In our long and storied history, our premier award has never been bestowed on the son or daughter of a combat correspondent. This changes in 2012 as Dr. Linda Canup Keaton-Lima, daughter of the late, long-time CC Claude “Red” Canup, and author of “War Is Not Just For Heroes” is awarded the 2012 Denig award.Her book, a collection of 398 “dispatches” and personal letters sent by her dad from the Pacific represents nearly 12 years of tenacity, stubbornness and perseverance. Marine historians are now calling this one of the most complete accounting of Marine aviation in World War II.
Given that “Red” had pack-rat tendencies and saved a copy of everything he wrote, it is doubtful these “flimsies” would have seen the light of day except for Linda’s stubbornness. “In 2000 I began bugging my brother Buzz in Texas, to send Dad’s works to some Marine connection. He finally sent them to me in 2009 after they were nearly destroyed by a water leak.”
After sorting through them, Linda contacted her Dad’s old friend, CC Past President Keith Oliver for advice: “Could they be published?” More importantly, “would anyone read them?” Keith assured her they would be read and suggested she contact the Naval Institute, publisher of the Proceedings.