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One of Lance Cpl. Rhita Daniels’ photos last month caught 1st Battalion, 1st Marines trudging through a simulated chemical attack at Camp Pendelton.

Cpl Matthew Teutsh grabbed a nice Osprey shot while steaming with the 11th MEU in the Eastern Pacific. The bird belongs to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163. Teutsh’s work represents just some of the imagery featured on www.usmc.mil.

First lieutenant James Mercure is requesting your personal stories from combat within the legacy 43XX, 46XX Occ field to help train our Marines (and future Marines) for combat and as a forcing function/evidence for an additional formal combat training requirement for Marines in the 45XX field before a deployment. Questionnaire is here.

In the legacy 43XX, 46XX MOSs, there was often a significant disparity between training before a deployment and the expectations of the Marine while deployed i.e. the Marines were not prepared prior to a deployment and some were labeled incompetent because they were not properly trained or integrated with the unit prior to deploying. Some Marines also adapted to their environment and were successful operating under fire based on their own initiative, intuition and instinct.  This is a success story for that Marine, but it should not be on the individual to “figure it out” when lives are on the line.  Also, a firefight should not be the first occasion a Marine thinks about what to grab; their rifle or camera?

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We want to congratulate our Marines for placing in the inaugural Military Visual Awards (MVA) , an independent photography competition for military photographers. It is not affiliated with the Department of Defense. They are: Sgt Holly Pernel (II MEF) won 2nd place News photo category. Cpl Danny Gonzalez (13th MEU) Read more…

The Los Angeles Chapter reports with deep sadness LA Chapter chaplain,  Harold Nebenzal, died Feb. 14. His daughter, Deborah Corday invites all to join for: A Celebration of A Life Well Lived IN LOVING MEMORY of my father HAROLD NEBENZAL March 31, 1922 – February 14, 2019 Please join us Read more…

Combat photographer Dalton S. Swanbeck, 11th MEU scored a most unusual trifecta this month: His imagery adorned the February covers of Leatherneck, the Marine Corps Gazette and Proceedings. BRAVO ZULU, Marine! (Covers reprinted with permission of the Marine Corps Association and the U.S. Naval Institute, respectively).

USMCCCA Foundation board member Jeremy Martin,the former commandant of Defense Information School, was spotlighted recently in the Gagen McDonald feature “Let Go & Lead.” GagenMcDonald. com. is widely regarded as a pioneer in the area of corporate and organizational strategy execution. Martin directs BellFlight’s public engagement efforts from the aviation Read more…

Recently, associate member Marc Yablonka sent us his book, Vietnam Bao Chi: Warriors of Word and Film Here is an excerpt from the book jacket: While a plethora of books exists about and by the civilian media who covered the Vietnam War, Vietnam Bao Chi is the first book that Read more…

Ray Adams, a lat move combat correspondent who served aboard Camp Lejeune, Okinawa and as a Public Affairs NCO in his native New England, died Dec. 3 while in hospice care in Tavares, Florida. He had been living with an inoperable brain tumor for 19 months longer than doctors had Read more…

It is with great sadness we inform the membership that Tom Kerr, Foundation President has resigned as of Jan. 1. We thank him for his service to our organization, and wish he and wife, Sheila, a well-deserved break from official duties. The vice president, Fred “Flash” Lash will take over Read more…