Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association’s Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual Read more…
Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association’s Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual Read more…
Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association’s Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual Read more…
Gunnar S. Carlson a recent graduate of the U.S. Military Academy shows off his West Point ring, with his proud father, Eric Carlson. The pair attended a formal banquet preceding graduation. Gunnar is now heading to the Army infantry officers course followed by Ranger School and Airborne jump school at Read more…
CC Jerry Payne had sad news for us. His wife, Marcia Kay Payne, 72, of Spotsylvania passed away on Thursday, June 13 at Mary Washington Hospital. Mrs. Payne was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Survivors include her husband, Benjamin Jerry Payne; children Alisa K. Thompson (Ethan) and Scott Payne (Rachel); Read more…
Happy Birthday later this month to USMCCCA Tribal Elder and proven Association workhorse Don Knight in Kensington, Maryland. Don, who will be 95 on June 25, was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and upon graduation from high school, he and five classmates “escaped” the draft by joining the U.S. Read more…
National VP Shawn Rhodes and affiliate member Linda Oliver are among the Florida-based media covering the educator workshop at MCRD Parris Island this week. Special thanks to RS Tampa MAC Marine Sgt. Calvin Shamoon and RS Jacksonville MAC Marine Cpl. Mike Hernandez for the invite. Watch this space for an Read more…
Next month the Smithsonian is hosting “Toward a More Inclusive Women’s Military History,” a symposium considering the past and future of women’s military history. As part of the event, Breanne Robertson Chen will be moderating a roundtable discussion on female Marines’ history that will feature the wonderful Col Mary Henry Read more…
Terry Lydell writes: I am looking for some help in locating some WWll correspondents or their files or family. Our family is trying to find the remains of our uncle who went MIA November 29, 1943 in Bougainville Solomon Islands. He was a Marine Corps Paratrooper with Company B, 1st Read more…