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The USMCCCA 2018 Dedicated Member program is off and running this week. This program was begun in the early 2000s as a backup to our annual Booster Club drive for contributions from those members who wanted to participate in our various programs but could not fit their gift into a Booster Club category. Gifts to the Foundation can be at any level and can be designated to the USMCCCA Scholarship Funds or to the general fund to help keep the organization afloat. When you rec

Compiled by Amy Forsythe The Marine Rapper, a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, is a hip-hop recording artist. He served as a combat correspondent with infantry battalions during his deployments to Iraq and then Afghanistan. TMR earned a combat action ribbon in Iraq and received an award for combat photography during the same firefight. TMR has been featured on: Apple Music, We Are The Mighty, VET TV - Kill Die Laugh, “Oscar Mike” TV series and “No Sh*t There I Was” on the G

The 14th annual USMC Combat Correspondents Association/Foundation (Florida Chapter) Golf Tournament, now renamed in honor of the tournament founder, James “Red” Carpenter , will again be played at the Sherman Hills Golf Club near Brooksville, FL on Friday afternoon April 27. Carpenter, who has given up chairmanship due to health conditions of his wife, has been replaced by Gene Smith of Ocoee. Gene recently retired from the PGA Tour where he served as Tournament Director o

Consider this a trial feeler. The USMCCCA Florida Chapter sponsors a golf tournament each April to benefit both the Injured Marines Semper Fi Fund as well as the USMCCCA Foundation Scholarship funds. Each year we are joined by members, relatives and friends. With our setup for play on Friday afternoon, April 27 this would be a great way for families to come to Florida Thursday evening for a long weekend and enjoy the nearby attractions in both Orlando and Tampa. The to

Sgt. Keith Mosier has come back to the fold, renewing his CC dues last month after a long absence. Keith, an award winning Marine photographer who snagged an Associated Press fellowship in New York City as a lance corporal, has been living in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky since his discharge from FMLant (Norfolk, Virginia) in 1976. Among his active duty bosses and running mates “back in the day”(CC members, all)were Lt. Col. Bill Boone, 2nd Lt. Bob Jordan, Master Sgt

By: Chas Henry and US Naval Institute Staff Frank Praytor , the U.S. Marine who gained a level of fame after being photographed nursing a kitten during the Korean War, died on January 10, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 90 years old and had been in poor health for several years. The widely distributed photo of Praytor with the kitten would prove to be more that just an endearing moment of humanity captured in the midst of a brutal war, it would later save him from b

After more than a few setbacks, our updated history is now ready to go. The 295-page edition traces us from our beginnings in World War II through the Gulf Wars. In our first edition two years ago we only had a few of the original photos from “Last To Know, First To Go.” In this edition we have added more than 70 photos. Our USMCCCA webmaster Kate Stark is again publishing the names of those named in the book. Even if your name is not listed in the index, you may be ment

A celebration of life was held for Mawk Arnold in the American Legion hall in Fairhope, AL on Saturday and, as Tom Kerr of our organization reported, “the hall was filled to its rafters. I swear more than half of the town was there!” Kerr reported that Dale Dye and Bob "Dink" Bayer , two of Mawk’s “snuffies” from the Vietnam war era were on hand. “Dale’s eulogy was simply magnificent!”

A belated but sad note: Maj. Gen. Terry Murray, who served as the Corps’ Director of Public Affairs in the mid 1990s, died at home on June 17, 2017 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 31, 2017.

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