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Found a couple images from the Iwo Jima trip. This one of Obie shaking hands w/CMC The photo was taken by Cpl. Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo. She is the CMC's photographer, shooting everything the CMC does. By the way, she's also a CC —Chuck [...]

The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s January Newsletter online

Col. Bryan Salas
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here
Marines –
January is here! Hit the ground running! Part of the end state in the Director’s Guidance “Share the Courage” discusses the PAO’s role on the staff. It says that we…“actively participate in operational [...]

NYC Public Affairs wraps it up for 2009

Welcome to final edition of the NYC Public Affairs monthly report for 2009.  The material in this report provides information to Marines and friends of Marines in New York to help tell the Marine Corps story and create opportunities.  As always, we look forward to your input as well. We look forward to a productive [...]

Year-end web stats for usmccca.org

So it’s been a little over a year since we re-launched the website for the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association. During that time we have published 347 stories, created 64 pages, and had 94 comments. The chart above tells you how many visitors we’ve had per month.
Special thanks to ALL our contributors, in particular [...]

Free NRA membership for active duty

CC Russ Thurman writes:
My publisher, FMG Publications, conducted a promotion in 2009, which offered new subscribers to GUNS Magazine a free one-year membership to the National Rifle Association. New subscribers, who already were NRA members, and others, were given the opportunity to donate the membership to active duty military personnel. Many did.
Those free NRA [...]

Are you Santa? CC Bill Hendricks’ legacy lives on

Don O’Neal, USMCCCA Foundation President reminds us that CC Bill Hendricks, now deceased, was one of the Toys for Tots program founders, and the program continues as a legacy to his memory… so do what you [...]

CC Espinosa completes DINFOS Instructor Training

CC member Gunnery Sgt. Joe Espinosa completed DINFOS' Instructor Training Course Dec. 15. He is being congratulated by graduation guest speaker, mustang Lt. Cmdr. Bruce Colkitt. The Guns serves as NCOIC for the Public Affairs Leadership Department where he has the daily challenge of dealing with the likes of John Dodd, Scott Woosley, Glenn and [...]

Combat camera icon Ralph Anderson passes

I have sad and unfortunate news to pass. An icon of Combat Camera passed away last night. Ralph Anderson, Director of Combat Camera Quantico passed yesterday evening after suffering a heart attack. I’m sure that there were few that did not know Mr. Anderson, he was well liked and respected. Many of us had grown [...]

The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter online

The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here
Marines -
What a privilege it is to serve in our Corps at this historic time. The President’s announcement of his Afghanistan Strategy affects Marines across [...]

CC Turney works with Kiwanis club

Marietta, Ga. Kiwanis Club members, Sally Macaulay, left, and CC Victoria Turney place a smaller-scale copy of a statue called ‘Forever Remember’ to honor the families of Americas heroes at the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art. Macaulay, the museum’s executive director, and Turney, president of the Kiwanis Club of Marietta, are part of a club project [...]