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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,

National VP Shawn Rhodes and affiliate member Linda Oliver are among the Florida-based media covering the educator workshop at MCRD Parris Island this week. Special thanks to RS Tampa MAC Marine Sgt. Calvin Shamoon and RS Jacksonville MAC Marine Cpl. Mike Hernandez for the invite.  Watch this space for an update or two!  (Photo by National USMCCCA President Keith Oliver )

Next month the Smithsonian is hosting "Toward a More Inclusive Women's Military History," a symposium considering the past and future of women's military history. As part of the event, Breanne Robertson Chen will be moderating a roundtable discussion on female Marines' history that will feature the wonderful Col Mary Henry Reinwald , SSgt Elize McKelvey , Dr. Zayna Bizri , Dr. Bradford Wineman , and Ms. Kara Newcomer . Please come join us on 18 July!

Terry Lydell writes: I am looking for some help in locating some WWll correspondents or their files or family. Our family is trying to find the remains of our uncle who went MIA November 29, 1943 in Bougainville Solomon Islands. He was a Marine Corps Paratrooper with Company B, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st Parachute Regiment. He was involved in the Koiari Raid along with the Raider Battalion November 28-29, 1943 while the Marines were securing a base at Cape Torokina. We

Veteran public relations and communications professional Fred Lash has joined Military Historical Tours, Inc. (MHT) as its Vice President for Communications. A career Marine officer, Fred’s first assignment was as a platoon commander with the 26 th Marines in South Vietnam.  He later served as a reconnaissance company commander and battalion executive officer with the 3 rd Marine Division on Okinawa.  He also was a company commander at both the Presidential Retreat at Ca