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Attention Members, Public Affairs and Combat Camera Marines.  The USMCCCA Foundation has announced major changes to its Foundation Scholarship program . Now only available to two-year members of the USMCCCA, the Foundation Board has changed that requirement in order to stimulate scholarship applications.   Applications will now be considered from: 1.  Members of the USMCCCA and their dependents, to include spouses. 2.  Active duty Marines and dependents in Occupational Field

The final 2010 issue of “Now Hear This” the official USMCCCA newsletter, should be arriving in your mailbox soon. If you DO NOT receive it, then you need to make sure CCHQ has your correct mailing address. You can MAKE SURE you get future newsletters by using the membership update form here . If you are a registered member of this site, you can download the newsletter by clicking on the image to the right.

CCHQ tries to run a tight ship and hold expenses down by using bulk mail rates to send member mailings.  You can imagine our surprise (read: dismay) when the post office called and we had to pay a hefty penalty because we had (so far) 23 newsletters returned due to bad member addresses.   We are required to put "Address Service Requested" on all mailings a minimum of every 90 days.  This helps when a member has moved within one year as the new address is furnished and we can

Between now and June 1 we hope to hear from you. This is one more way you can help your Association maintain programs that assist the various active duty Marines including the Wounded Marine Careers Foundation – a program that retrains our warriors in the skills that each of us might have learned many years ago. Your gifts also help support the scholarship funds for members, dependents, and active duty Marines. Consider also the annual Merit Awards Program that recognizes the

Okay, as many of you know (or not) ... for tax purposes and fundraising there are two accounts set up. USMCCCA and USMCCCA Foundation . If you are sending in a check to pay for something, please use the following as the payee. Make payable to: USMCCCA for the following only: - Dues - Conference registration - Quartermaster gear Make payable to USMCCCA Foundation for: - Booster Club - Dedicated Member - Journal ads - Merit Award Sponsorship - any other charitable contributio

Okay, CCs. When Gary Cameron’s “Last To Know, First To Go,” the unofficial history of our merry band, hit the streets in the late 1970s, a lot of us started bitching about names left out, happenings that didn’t, and why didn’t he include anything about the unit I was in and why didn’t he use this photo or that. Some of us liked it, some of us didn’t. Most of us have agreed since, that while a monumental effort, a sequel was needed to bring us up to present day and hopefully