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Editors note: The following candidates are running unopposed and will be elected at the annual business meeting, Aug. 19-23 in Atlanta, after slate is approved by voting members. Dan Clare is a former enlisted Marine who currently serves as a senior communications specialist for the Disabled American Veterans . At DAV, he directs the production of written, electronic, photographic and digital media, including DAV Magazine, and web content. Through media relations, social n

Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association's Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual business meeting in Atlanta Aug. 19-23. Candidate 5 of 5 Sharon Fox currently works as the first former combat correspondent and MPA ever hired to work on the Marine Corps account at J. Walter Thom

Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association's Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual business meeting in Atlanta Aug. 19-23. Candidate 4 of 5 Karen Anne Holliday recently became the CommStrat and Operations Director for the 22 nd MEU. Now an active duty captain, she has been an e

Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association's Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual business meeting in Atlanta Aug. 19-23. Candidate 3 of 5 James Chittenden is a sought-after consultant for entrepreneurs who want a strong and orderly start to their business, and to business owner

Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association's Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual business meeting in Atlanta Aug. 19-23. Candidate 2 of 5 Conner Downey was born on Sept. 18, 1997, and raised in small town Wisconsin. Upon receiving his diploma in 2016 with highest honors, Downey

Editors Note: For the first time in many years, we have five candidates for two open seats on the Association's Board of Directors. We are introducing you to one candidate per day, in no particular order. Please remember to vote via absentee ballot if you cannot be at the annual business meeting in Atlanta Aug. 19-23. Candidate 1 of 5 Bryan McDonnell is an active duty Mustang captain, currently serving as the CommStrat and Operations Director at MCRD Parris Island/ERR . D

Gunnar S. Carlson a recent graduate of the U.S. Military Academy shows off his West Point ring, with his proud father, Eric Carlson . The pair attended a formal banquet preceding graduation. Gunnar is now heading to the Army infantry officers course followed by Ranger School and Airborne jump school at Ft. Benning Ga. Upon completion he will report to 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. sometime next year. Since Eric retired from the Corps in 1998, he has been wor

CC Jerry Payne had sad news for us. His wife, Marcia Kay Payne, 72, of Spotsylvania passed away on Thursday, June 13 at Mary Washington Hospital. Mrs. Payne was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Survivors include her husband, Benjamin Jerry Payne ; children Alisa K. Thompson (Ethan) and Scott Payne (Rachel); grandchildren Adryan A. Payne, Meagan Thompson and Shane Thompson; siblings Barbara Liu (Marvin), Bill Holliday (Sue) and Rick Holliday (Cindy); and numerous nieces and neph

Happy Birthday later this month to USMCCCA Tribal Elder and proven Association workhorse Don Knight in Kensington, Maryland. Don, who will be 95 on June 25, was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and upon graduation from high school, he and five classmates “escaped” the draft by joining the U.S. Marines and shipping out to the South Pacific at the height of World War II. After the war, he leveraged his G.I. Bill to earn a journalism degree from Boston University,