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Less than a week! Register for the 2009 conference and save money!

Members have till the end of the month in which to save $20 on their Conference Registration.  The $100 fee goes up April 1 to $120 and to $130 after June 1. This is shaping up to be a really good conference, with lots of entertainment in the Hospitality Suite (Command Post), a free continental breakfast on Wednesday and a nice boat ride for the ladies on Friday. All this plus interesting seminars and a special “how to” for those of us not too swift on computers, scanning, etc., hosted by webmaster Kate Stark.
Mark your calendar and sign up early for the September 14-18 event.  You can register here or by sending your check or credit card into to CCHQ at 220 Fox Court, Wildwood, FL 34785.

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By Jason Fudge, ago

Federal Records Center Directors wanted

The National Archives and Records Administration is currently recruiting for two Federal Records Center Director positions – one for our Rocky Mountain Region in Denver, CO, and the other for our Great Lakes Region in Miamisburg, OH, just south of Dayton.  Applications will be accepted until April 7, 2009.  A full copy of the vacancy announcement is located at: http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=80096850

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By Jason Fudge, ago

Conference site? Marines are no strangers in Hampton history

Don Knight left active duty as a sergeant in the public affairs field in 1952. Since then he has worked as a reporter/editor/feature writer for many newspapers and is currently a rotating reporter/editor for the National Press Club weekly newsletter. He is also serving as vice president of the USMCCCA.

Don Knight left active duty as a sergeant in the public affairs field in 1952. Since then he has worked as a reporter, editor, feature writer for many newspapers and is currently a rotating reporter/editor for the National Press Club weekly newsletter.

By Don Knight, USMCCCA vice president
Come September, U.S. Marine combat correspondents, past and present,  will land in strength at Hampton, VA, site of the next annual conference of the USMCCCA.  The city, on the shore of Hampton Roads, lies at the tip of a peninsula boasting some of the most historic acreage in the United States: Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown and the neighboring port city of Newport News.
Many in Yorktown, just 10 miles north of Hampton,  may remember the last time a contingent of Marines showed up in strength. Oct. 19 is celebrated annually as Yorktown Day, the anniversary of the day in 1781 when British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered to American General George Washington, ending the long and hard-fought battle for independence: the American Revolution.
By Jason Fudge, ago