Marines – The most significant threat to U.S. national security is the national debt. This economic crisis has the potential to affect everything from immigration to our negotiating leverage as a great power – his must be solved. This is not my analysis, but that of national leaders in the Read more…
Lance Cpl. Clark and a couple other Marines were featured on both The New York Times’ “Lens” and “At War” blog for their photography. Pretty exciting. Some photographers spend their entire lives shooting and don’t get featured by the Times. –Mark Fayloga
When not working on the website, I am a page designer for the New York Times International Weekly and the Large Print Weekly… so imagine my interest when during a budget meeting last week, an article on Combat Artists came up. Featured prominently in the story was our own, First Place Combat Read more…
NASHVILLE — U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association member Robert Wynkoop is pinned by his grandfather John H. Wynkoop in a ceremony at Vanderbilt University, May 14. Wynkoop received his commission as a 2nd Lieutenant through the Meritorious Enlisted Commissioning Education Program (MECEP). Wynkoop is a past merit award winner Read more…
Lance Cpl. Justin D. Loya, attached to 3/6, showed that Marines truly are riflemen first.
Story by Lance Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde
Afghanistan – When the infantry Marines of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, were first told they were getting a combat camera Marine attached to their platoon for Operation Moshtarak’s push into Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, they didn’t know what to expect.
“I thought, ‘he’s obviously not a grunt. He’s been to (Marine Combat Training). He’s got the basics down, but maybe he has no idea what’s going on,'” said Lance Cpl. Timothy J. Ryan, a fireteam leader with 2nd Platoon, Lima Company, 3/6.
That combat camera Marine, Lance Cpl. Justin D. Loya, attached to 3/6, showed that Marines truly are riflemen first. When one of Ryan’s Marines went down with a knee injury during the push, Loya essentially became the final piece of the team.
Congratulations to the first place merit award winners: First Place Illustration: LCpl Micheal Hollingsworth, ComCam, Quantico First Place Combat Art: Sgt Kristopher Battles, Historical Division, Quantico First Place Layout and Design: PFC Jacob Banks, ComCam, Quantico First Place Layout and Design (civilian): Sharon McPeak, Camp Johnson, NC First place winners Read more…
(From Left) Lance Cpl. Jerrick Griffin, 1st MLG (FWD) combat correspondent; Staff Sgt. Jennifer Brofer, 1st MLG (FWD) Public Affairs Chief; 2nd Lt. Jeremy McLean, 1st MLG (FWD) Public Affairs Officer; and Lance Cpl. Khoa Pelczar, 1st MLG (FWD) combat correspondent, are currently deployed to Afghanistan. The Marines deployed in Read more…
When MajGen. Richard “Boomer” Milstead pinned on his second star last July, I reminded the former Director of Information that he owed me a new challenge coin to replace the one he had given me in Los Angeles several years ago, when he was a Brigadier and Director of Information. Read more…
Sugar Ray Leonard poses with LtCol. Player following the Annual Fight Night fundraiser in the District of Columbia. Both Leonard and Ken Norton were on tap for the recent event.
CC LtCol. Riccoh Player holds one of the most unique jobs in the Marine Corps, that of a Legislative Fellow on Capitol Hill in Washington. We asked him recently about the job and what made it interesting for him.
“I’ve been assigned to the Veterans Affairs Committee with specific duties on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. My tasks include, but are not limited to, tracking the VA Claims backlog, answering constituent questions, concerns and complaints, and tracking and analyzing VA related media trends. We also provide a sounding board for concerned citizens who provide advice and ideas.