The USMCCCA reached a milestone at the 2009 Conference when four new members were recruited. This gives us 50 new members this year alone. Please welcome Matt Butler, 1 MEB Chief, Camp Pendleton; Nathan Hanks, PA Specialist, Albany, Katie Densmore, CC from Camp Lejeune, and Alan Crouch, PAO, MCB Hawaii. Read more…
Dave Hugel writes: On October 22, 2009 the Marine Corps dedicated a new Chapel on a rise overlooking the National Museum of the Marine Corps, just outside the front gate of MCB Quantico, Virginia. The MCB Quantico band played at dedication. Nestled in a wooded area on a rise overlooking Read more…
Standing outside the PA shop at NAS Quincy, MA the morning of reporting for duty. Don Knight is on the far right. He is carrying his toothbrush and comb ("I had a lot of good teeth and hair in those days") and standing on a curb facing the duty officer which makes his 5’7” look like 5’11”. A big sign nearby reads: “Welcome Weekend Warriors.” The word Weekend has been covered with a big X.
To: Keith Oliver,
OK, I’ve reached Appendix #3 [of Keith Oliver’s book “Command Attention: Promoting Your Organization the Marine Corps Way” ] and will pause long enough to catch my breath and send you some thoughts, scattered with words of praise, about “The Book.”
It’s a great piece of writing (terse, personal, informative, entertaining) and I hope you sell a million copies and that this little gem becomes the guidebook for all communicators of all stripe in the Corps and beyond. I especially enjoyed the words about our information revolution, including that part about the manual typewriter (just kidding).
CC graphics legend Chuck Beveridge lent his expertise to Keith Oliver’s Command Attention marketing effort today. Keith is doing a book signing at the Naval Academy Visitors Center prior to the Navy-Wake Forest game; thanks to Chuck (and some North Carolina friends), those visiting Demon Deacon football fans will stop Read more…
Norm Hatch is featured in the Pacific wing of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Shipmates signed on for the Feb. 28 CC and Mustang cruise and pre-cruise package will be among the first to visit the new additions at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. And with talk of New Orleans as a possible CC conference site in the near future, the following story from USA TODAY should interest CCs.
And did you know, one of our own, CC Norm Hatch, is featured in the Pacific wing of the museum. If you can’t wait for the CCs to invade New Orleans in conference-force, you can make an early recon with the advance detail of cruisers. For info call Tom Kerr at 850 897-7743 or email tripstogo@cox.net.
Warrant Officer Charles W. “Bill” Henderson, Sgt. Steve Whitfield, Sgt. Dave Leutenberger, GySgt. Steve Merrill, SSgt. Jim Hickman, Major Fred “Flash” Lash, Sgt. Eugene Groh, and Cpl Kevin Lane. (Photo by David Hume Kennerley)
For every Marine who served in Beirut from 1982 through 1984, today is our Memorial Day. It is our Day of Remembrance. On October 23, 1983 an Islamic Terrorist drove a massive truck bomb into a building where several hundred of our brothers slept on a Sunday morning, and killed 241 of them. I warrant to you that this attack and the attack of April 18, 1983 against our United States Embassy in Beirut , truly represent the opening assaults by the enemy in today’s Global War on Terrorism.
I gave a class to some brave CCs who claimed to be “computerly-challenged,” during the USMCCCA conference in Hampton, Va, last month. I have compiled some notes (um, 43 pages worth) of facts, tips and tricks. You are welcome to download it. (Click here to download) Please print only what Read more…
CC Todd “Rowdy” Yeatts, a government relations manager at Boeing and a major in the Marine Reserve, was guest speaker at DINFOS‘ Joint Expeditionary Course graduation on Oct. 8, 2009. “Rowdy was our first choice to address the group,” said Public Affairs Leadership Department chairman Keith Oliver “since he’s deployed Read more…
The United States Naval Institute, a prestigious non profit publisher & membership association in Annapolis, MD is seeking an experienced, hands-on associate editor. The associate editor performs editing duties for Proceedings and Naval History, working with authors to produce the best possible articles. Experience as a line or copy editor is required.
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