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(Editor's note: An additional obit was published on http://www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com ) By Capt. Dale Dye USMC (Ret) It's indisputable that I would not have survived my service in Vietnam if it hadn't been for a rugged, rawboned mustang officer who enlisted in the Marine Corps nearly a year before I was born. In fact, none of the seriously twisted bull-goose loonies that served as Combat Correspondents in the 1st Marine Division under Captain Mawk Arnold would have lived t

It is with great sadness that CCHQ announces the passing of National USMCCCA Chaplain and retired Maj. Mordacai “Mawk” Arnold early evening, January 15, 2018. National President Keith Oliver received a call from Mawk’s wife, Alice , that she was visiting with Mawk who was convalescing following a very recent stroke when he suddenly died of an apparent heart attack. Mawk was in his early 90s and had been in relatively poor health these past few weeks. No further details are

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 In case you missed it, ye olde Leatherneck , the unrivaled “Magazine of the Marines,” turned 100 last month. Easily the USMCCCA’s longest-running partner in the ink-and-paper biz (and now wowing readers on the web, as well), Leatherneck has featured the bylines, photo credits and manual arts contributions of many an Association member. And up into the 1970s, our favorite mag included active duty CCs on the fulltime, editorial staff. The commemorative is

Practicing what he preaches, 11th MEU Communications Strategy and Operations Chief, Gunnery Sgt. Robert D. Brown, snagged a Marine Corps Association calendar shot with this image from the unit’s last deployment. The photo also appeared in the September issue of the Naval Institute Proceedings.

The Beaufort Film Society is pleased to announce that Dale Dye will be presented the inaugural Pat Conroy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Beaufort International Film Festival. The festival dates are February 21-25, 2018 with the Red Carpet Reception and Awards Gala taking place on Sunday, February 25th at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort, Center for the Arts . “If you look at his body of work in the film industry over the past three decades, read th

Sgt. Levi Shultz, presently pulling duty at Recruiting Station Des Moines, Iowa, made the Marine Corps Association 2018 calendar with his photo of cold weather training.

Progress continues on our effort to honor Joe Rosenthal with a Navy ship. While Joe earned the Pulitzer Prize and many other awards during his long career, newer generations of San Franciscans and Americans deserve to know the name of the creator of the most significant photograph ever taken. While some of us may have faded over the decades, Joe’s photo shines just a brightly as it did 72 years ago! Our current efforts fall into three categories: 1. Outreach and signature col

Tampa, Florida CC, former Sgt. Shawn Rhodes , rejoined his former Devil Dog colleagues in the USMCCCA this fall. An international expert in creating high-performing organizations, Shawn is a Tampa-based TEDx speaker whose work studying organizations in more than two dozen countries has been highlighted in TIME, CNN, NBC and INC. The former Camp Lejeune-based combat correspondent deployed to Iraq during the war's kickoff in 2003. More recently, the Western Carolina Universit