The Los Angeles Chapter reports with deep sadness LA Chapter chaplain, Harold Nebenzal, died Feb. 14. His daughter, Deborah Corday invites all to join for: A Celebration of A Life Well Lived IN LOVING MEMORY of my father HAROLD NEBENZAL March 31, 1922 – February 14, 2019 Please join us Read more…
Combat photographer Dalton S. Swanbeck, 11th MEU scored a most unusual trifecta this month: His imagery adorned the February covers of Leatherneck, the Marine Corps Gazette and Proceedings. BRAVO ZULU, Marine! (Covers reprinted with permission of the Marine Corps Association and the U.S. Naval Institute, respectively).
USMCCCA Foundation board member Jeremy Martin,the former commandant of Defense Information School, was spotlighted recently in the Gagen McDonald feature “Let Go & Lead.” GagenMcDonald. com. is widely regarded as a pioneer in the area of corporate and organizational strategy execution. Martin directs BellFlight’s public engagement efforts from the aviation Read more…
Recently, associate member Marc Yablonka sent us his book, Vietnam Bao Chi: Warriors of Word and Film Here is an excerpt from the book jacket: While a plethora of books exists about and by the civilian media who covered the Vietnam War, Vietnam Bao Chi is the first book that Read more…
Ray Adams, a lat move combat correspondent who served aboard Camp Lejeune, Okinawa and as a Public Affairs NCO in his native New England, died Dec. 3 while in hospice care in Tavares, Florida. He had been living with an inoperable brain tumor for 19 months longer than doctors had Read more…
It is with great sadness we inform the membership that Tom Kerr, Foundation President has resigned as of Jan. 1. We thank him for his service to our organization, and wish he and wife, Sheila, a well-deserved break from official duties. The vice president, Fred “Flash” Lash will take over Read more…
We caught up with John Shotwell over the holidays. The former Marine Corps Director of Public Affairs and senior leatherneck PAO in Operation Desert Storm stays busy writing, painting and editing an award-winning newsletter and website for the Bluegrass Chapter of the Marine Officers Association of America. He and his Read more…
Marine WWII KIA, TSgt. Richard Murphy, came home to Maryland and was buried with full military honors next to his mother in Silver Spring, Maryland Dec. 1, following a funeral mass at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Rockville. One of Murphy’s nieces, Jeanne Robinson, chatted with CC National President Keith Read more…
Col. Riccoh Player, Deputy Director of Marine Corps Communication, hosted USMCCCA reps Fred Lash (Foundation Vice-President) and Keith Oliver (Association President) in the Megan McClung Conference Room on Dec. 3 to discuss our tri-gathering in Atlanta set for August 19-23. Watch this space and other HQ USMCCCA comms for venue, Read more…
Pfc. Brett W. Beard, Jr. is scheduled to complete Marine Combat Training at Camp Pendleton on Dec. 15. Next stop is Pensacola, Florida and Air Traffic Control School. His proud Dad, retired Master Sgt. Brett Beard, is a USMCCCA Life Member who carved out an enviable career in our Corps’ Read more…