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Wendi Winters , USMCCCA affiliate member and frequent Defense Information School guest speaker, was among the five news people killed yesterday at the Annapolis Capital. Shown here with former DINFOS Commandant, Col. Jeremy Martin, Wendi was known as a "force of nature" in the region. In addition to her passions and activities described in the accompanying link, the classic New Yorker was especially supportive of active duty military members, armed forces aspirants and veter

The University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) is now home to the United States Marine Corps Film Repository. A partnership with the Marine Corps’ History Division at Quantico, the Repository will ensure the physical preservation and digitization of an estimated 18,000 films made almost entirely by the Marines of Combat Camera. Featuring films from Combat Camera’s origins in World War II through the 1980s, MIRC will make freely available online to

This has been an incredible year of first-time accomplishments for Marines in the communication field. First, Sgt Matthew Callahan shocked the community by securing both the DoD Videographer and Photographer of the year titles and on Saturday June 23 rd another Marine team had a historic first. Master Gunnery Sergeant Chad McMeen , Sergeant Annika Moody and Mr. Grant Stolz from the Defense Media Activity’s Marine production team walked the red carpet to receive an Emm

Sgt. Matthew Callahan is the first servicemember ever to be named both Military Photographer and Videographer of the Year . An article about him was featured in Stars and Stripes , recently. Callahan is a many time distinguished Performance winner and is expected to pick up his award at the Annual Awards Banquet on Aug. 22 during the 2018 USMCCCA Professional Development & Training Symposium to be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel New Bern, NC, from Monday, Aug. 20 -

By Tom Graves For Tom Pach, a veteran of the Korean War, Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima flag raising photograph has a special significance, not just as a Marine, but as a man who lost his older brother in the battle for the island. Pach was one of the estimated 200 people gathered on Memorial Day Weekend to learn about Joe Rosenthal and his iconic photo taken in the midst of the bloody battle. Many men and women in the audience stood to be acknowledged for their military service

Shawn Rhodes , former combat correspondent and vice president of the USMCCCA, recently delivered a keynote at the training symposium hosted by I MEF at Camp Pendleton, CA. More than 50 communications/strategy Marines from various west coast commands were present to hear Shawn share his lessons learned, both as a CC and from leveraging media products in his own business. Shawn also shared the new initiatives underway at the USMCCCA and encouraged the Marines present to attend

Second Lieutenant 2nd Lt. Brian A. Tuthill recently commissioned as a Marine Corps officer May 12 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA to earn a bachelor of science in Public Management & Policy, and was selected as his university’s Naval ROTC unit’s distinguished Marine officer graduate. At his NROTC unit, he served in multiple billets, including assistant operations officer, communications officer, pre-OCS developme

Former Marine CC Amy Forsythe is now a U.S. Navy Reserve Public Affairs Officer and is currently mobilized to active duty serving her third tour in Afghanistan. Forsythe, a lifetime USMCCCA member, never goes anywhere without a camera. Here she is crossing the famous "Friendship Bridge" at the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan border in the northern part of the country. The announcement that there's going to be a short ceasefire is welcome news for everyone! Hoping for peace and reconc

By Ed Evans If you haven't heard, it is with a heavy heart I share the news that LtGen. "Mick" Trainor passed away June 2, 2018 . Mick was a legendary Marine who served as a Platoon Commander in Korea and a Recon Battalion Commander in Vietnam. He was one of the best military minds in the Marine Corps. A friend and mentor to many. Quick story. LtGen. Trainer was CO of Recon in 1970 when Leatherneck Magazine sent me to Vietnam for coverage. I was with Trainor's Marines w