President’s Notes A recent spate of new and renewed memberships is helping your Association vault into the 2018 with high expectations for roster gains and robust registration for our gathering in New Bern this summer. Former Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jason Fischer, a newly-promoted Navy lieutenant commander, has re-upped within the Read more…
President’s Notes Lance Cpl. Roderick Jacquote was our latest cover shooter for Leatherneck, capturing an image for the September “Magazine of the Marines.” The shot featured Marines hard at work prepping precision airdrops during training at MCAS Yuma – demonstrating that the Corps is still very much in the parachute Read more…
President’s Notes Well, this feels familiar. The year was 1967, a half century ago. The U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association gathered in Washington, D.C., to focus on a new mission at the behest of Director of Information, Brig. Gen. Frank Garretson: “To … administer a prestigious annual program designed Read more…
President’s Notes Cpl. Zachery Laning’s compelling shot of 11th MEU artillery operations in northern Syria garnered him a great cover just in time for the 4th of July. The Chincoteague, Virginia native is a videographer by training (see some of his work in that realm @ https://www.dvidshub.net/video/505252/pacific-fury) but his NCOIC, Read more…
President’s Notes Perennial CC award winner, Staff Sgt . Reece Lodder, nabbed another Leatherneck cover this month. Editor Mary Reinwald chose Lodder’s strong vertical from 2012 operations in Afghanistan to highlight Aaron Fenwick’s tale of three lance corporals whose infantry squad leader work. in the Helmand Province earned them meritorious Read more…
President’s Notes The current issue of Proceedings, the U.S. Naval Institute’s 144-year-old flagship pub, is replete with names familiar to USMCCCA folk. CC Joe Plenzler was praised by USNI CEO Vice Adm. Peter Daly for his “positive impacts on membership and engagement” as he leaves the Annapolis outfit to join Read more…