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President’s Notes A recent spate of new and renewed memberships is helping your Association vault into the 2018 with high expectations for roster gains and robust registration for our gathering in New Bern this summer. Former Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jason Fischer , a newly-promoted Navy lieutenant commander, has re-upped within the past two weeks; as has affiliate member Dan Heath (retired Navy senior chief and chaplain of South Carolina’s Iron Mike Chapter in the mid-1980s; a

President’s Notes Lance Cpl. Roderick Jacquote was our latest cover shooter for Leatherneck , capturing an image for the September “Magazine of the Marines.” The shot featured Marines hard at work prepping precision airdrops during training at MCAS Yuma – demonstrating that the Corps is still very much in the parachute business (as it was in its infancy when CC legend, the late Col. Tom Fields , was commanding infantry units in the 1940s). Jacquote, from Sugarland, Texas,

President’s Notes Well, this feels familiar. The year was 1967, a half century ago. The U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association gathered in Washington, D.C., to focus on a new mission at the behest of Director of Information, Brig. Gen. Frank Garretson : “To … administer a prestigious annual program designed to recognize the professional competence of active-duty Marines in the fields of public information, photography and art.” Author Garry Cameron ( Last t

President’s Notes Cpl. Zachery Laning’s compelling shot of  11 th MEU artillery operations in northern Syria garnered him a great cover just in time for the 4 th of July. The Chincoteague, Virginia native is a videographer by training (see some of his work in that realm @ https://www.dvidshub.net/video/505252/pacific-fury ) but  his NCOIC, Gunnery Sgt. Robert Brown of Spring Lake, North Carolina said Laning used the  unit’s recent  far-ranging deployment to “cross-tra

President’s Notes Perennial CC award winner, Staff Sgt . Reece Lodder ,  nabbed another Leatherneck cover this month. Editor Mary Reinwald chose Lodder’s strong vertical from 2012 operations in Afghanistan to highlight Aaron Fenwick’s tale of three lance corporals whose infantry squad leader work. in the Helmand Province earned them meritorious promotions to corporal.  The trio was serving under fire in sergeants’  billets. Elsewhere in the May issue,   P.L. Thompson,

President's Notes The current issue of Proceedings , the U.S. Naval Institute's 144-year-old flagship pub, is replete with names familiar to USMCCCA folk. CC Joe Plenzler was praised by USNI CEO Vice Adm. Peter Daly for his “positive impacts on membership and engagement” as he leaves the Annapolis outfit to join USMCCCA stalwart John Raughter in doing liaison work with the American Legion. Joe's work as the Institute's vice-president for marketing and membership had fol