2010 Conference Schedule for Sgts and Below
2010 Conference for Senior Leaders
2010 Conference Schedule For All Hands
Monday, August 23—Travel and Check In
1300 Registration open at Boardroom on Mezzanine level near Ballrooms
1500 Staff NCO Call at Lake Tahoe
1500 Officer Call (TBA)
2000 Hospitality Suite Opens
Tuesday, August 24
0700 Registration open at Boardroom on Mezzanine level near Ballrooms
0800–0830 Admin remarks/Chief’s [...]

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 Executive and Legislative Branches. How the [...]

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 [...]

Combat artist Sgt Kristopher J Battles was featured in the New York Times
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 [...]

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 to include the 2002 Outstanding New [...]

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, [...]

First place Illustration by LCpl Micheal Hollingsworth
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 are encouraged [...]