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Story by Don Knight Nearly seventy years ago World War Two finally came to end. On Sept.2, 1945. The Japanese military delegation came aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay and signed the surrender documents. Bells rang, whistles blew and bars nationwide filled up with celebrants. San Francisco was off […]

We have one unsold brick that will be placed on the Denig Memorial at the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico.  The brick can be engraved with three lines of 20 characters each line.  The $300 cost for the brick includes an amount to the USMCCCA Scholarship Fund.  […]

Manny Pacheco, president, USMCCCA

A heartfelt greeting and special thanks to all my fellow CCs for entrusting me with the stewardship of our organization. I am humbled by the outpouring of support.

Let me begin by thanking our outgoing President Bill Hauptfleisch for his hard work and dedication over the past two years. Let me also express my thanks to the many folks who work behind the scenes (board members, our executive director, our web master and others) to ensure we continue to march.  Our organization is at a crossroads and it will take some patience and perseverance to ensure that we take the right approach so that both our Association and our Foundation remain strong, ready and relevant, not only to us CCs of yesterday but also to the warrior story tellers of today and tomorrow.

Over the course of the next year I want to dedicate myself to finding creative and innovative ways of not just increasing our membership, but just as important (if not more so) to figure out ways to get the more than 400 members on our roles to play a more active role in their organization.  The first step of that endeavor is to ask each of you to pledge to do one thing this year, not for me, not for the CCs, but for your fellow Marines and for our Corps.

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The USMCCCA Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the names of our 2014 scholarship recipients.  Joint winners of the Gladys McPartland Scholarship fund for general studies for 2014 were Sarah Pacheco, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manny Pacheco and a student at Virginia Tech,  and Aidan Kelly, son of Mr. […]

Now and Then: MCA&F Publisher and Leatherneck Editor Walt Ford in his pre-retirement photo (left) and as Regimental Commander, Col. Walter Ford, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division after his Marine retirement.

Leatherneck Publisher/Editor Walt Ford will retire June 30. Following active-duty service of more than 30 years as an artillery officer, which included combat service in Vietnam, he initially was hired as editor of Leatherneck magazine in August 1999 and added the responsibilities of MCA&F publisher in 2007. He faithfully pursued the mission of Leatherneck to tell the Marine Corps’ story, to preserve the history and traditions of the Corps, and to act as a connection to the Corps for veteran Marines, friends of Marines and the general public.

Since Col Ford became editor, Leatherneck authors have earned the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s prestigious Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Award for excellence in historical writing four times and the magazine has won a Printing Industries of Virginia printing excellence award.

Col Ford supported both the Combat Camera and Public Affairs military occupational specialties. For numerous years, he assisted in judging the Department of Defense’s annual Thomas Jefferson Awards that recognize excellence in the Public Affairs field and also has been a judge for the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s annual awards program.

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There are two categories of USMCCCA scholarship grants available:

• The Gladys McPartland Scholarship for general studies
• The USMCCCA Brigadier General Robert L. Denig Foundation Scholarship for studies leading to a degree in Communications.

Scholarship Instructions and Application can be downloaded here

 Applicants for both scholarships must meet the requirements below:

Eligibility:
1. A member of the Association; member’s dependent (to include spouse); any active duty Marine in occupational field 4300 or 4600 (and related MOS). In the case of an active duty Marine applicant he or she must agree to become a member of the USMCCCA upon selection and remain a member throughout the lifetime of the approved scholarship. (more…)

CCHQ received one of the best plaudits yet for the 2013 Journal, Sunday night.  Bernice Stavisky, wife of the late Sam Stavisky, called raving about the suburb Journal she had received.  As Bernice always has said, she conducts nightly “talks” with Sam and she is sure he would love to […]