Awards>Merit Award Winner

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1st Place: SSgt. Ethan Rocke, Los Angeles Public Affairs
His first place awards in three other writing categories earned him this top award for the second year In a row. His work also earned him two top writing awards in this year’s Department of Defense Thomas Jefferson competition.

2nd Place: Cpl. Nicole A. Lavine, Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms

Honorable Mention: GySgt. Bill Lisbon, MCAS Yuma

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1st Place: Sgt. G.P. Ingersoll, 1st Marine Logistics Group
Ingersoll wrote from Outpost Warhorse in Iraq that counterinsurgency training of the Iraqi army is paying important dividends, noting that the “dwindling Marine presence would have little effect on Anbar Province’s stablity. The Iraqi’s are ready.”

2nd Place: Sgt. Steve Cushman, MCAS Cherry Point

Honorable Mention: Cpl. Ryan Wicks, MCB Okinawa

Honorable Mention:Cpl. Ryan Tomlinson, 1st MLG

Honorable Mention: Sgt. G. P. Ingersoll, 1st MLG

Award-winning stories are published below

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1st Place Outstanding New Writer: LCpl. Bryan Carfrey

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1st Place: LCpl. Bryan Carfrey, Defense Media Activity Marine Corps
Carfrey, said working at the Division of Public Affairs, Headquarters, Marine Corps, “gave me the opportunity to work with some of the best in our field, many of which had gone through the journalism program at Syracuse University. This allowed me to learn a lot in a short period of time.”

2nd Place: LCpl. Alesha R. Guard, MCB Hawaii

Honorable Mention: LCpl. Graham Benson, MCAS Yuma

Award-winning stories are published below

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Honorable Mention: Christine Cabaro, MCB Hawaii

Nintendo Wii therapy aids wounded

Injured service members getting into the swing of rehabilitation therapy should consider finding a Wii console.

The Nintendo gaming system is helping Wounded Warrior Company’s 3rd Marine Regiment Marines recuperate from their combat injuries. Recovering Warriors are reaping therapeutic benefits during single and multiple player Wii games.

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1st Place Contribution by a Contractor/Stringer Photographer is Joel C. Guenther: Marines overcome obstacles at Darton Challenge Course.

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1st Place (and Honorable Mention): Joel Guenther, Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany GA.
Guenther went along with 20 Marines who took the Challenge Course at Darton College in Albany. The tower climb was one of five exercises forcing team members to work together to solve problems.

2nd Place: Art Powell, Marine Logistics Group, Albany, GA.

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1st Place Art and Graphic in Support of a Publication by LCpl. Pete Zrioka: Chow hall menu graphic.

Category sponsored by Charles Bonilla

1st Place: LCpl. Pete Zrioka, MCAS Yuma
If you’ve been in a Marine chow line then you’ve seen this character with his ladle and his “take-it-or-leave-it” approach. The drawing highlights the chow hall menu at MCAS, Yuma.

2nd Place: LCpl Kyle Ramirez, MCAS Iwakuni

More art/graphics below

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1st Place Series: SSgt. Ethan Rocke

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1st Place: SSgt. Ethan Rocke, Los Angeles Public Affairs
Rocke’s three-part series, titled “The Untouchables,” focused on Marine Corporal Tim Jeffers from Southern California, who lost both legs, half his skull and one eye when hit by an enemy IED in Iraq in 2006. A dramatic story unfolds as Jeffers survives his medical ordeal and is briefly reunited with his Marine buddies on Okinawa and stateside. Rocke sums up his work as a CC, saying “it is a priviledge to tell the Marine Corps story for a living.”

Winning story is published below

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1st Place Photojournalism by Sgt. Alex Kleinsmith: Children from Camel Douda sit on the sidelines while watching Marines from 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion take on local Djiboutians during a friendly soccer match.

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1st Place: Sgt. Alex Kleinsmith, 1st Marine Logistics Group
Kleinsmith combined his reporting from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa with a series of candid photos depicting life in the volatile region. “Though the prospect of peace and stability is still years away,” wrote Kleinsmith, “the Marines continue to push forward, one bottle of water and one smile at a time.”

2nd Place: Sgt. James P.Green, MCRD San Diego

Honorable Mention: LCpl. Christopher O’Quin

More award-winning images can be seen below

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Category sponsored by Chuck Kester 1st Place: The Globe, Camp Lejeune The Globe, now in its 65th year, displayed impressive use of layout and color with a large mix of features including one on the anniversary of the Beirut barracks explosion, the return of the 24th MEU and a 9/11 Read more…