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USMCCCA has an additional three one-year scholarships (a $350 value) to Lynda.com available to 2017 DPA winners (1st, 2nd or HM). We will take names of those interested until Nov. 5, 2017 then pick three names randomly. Contact kate@usmccca.org if you would like to be entered.

Four of the last surviving active duty Marines who served on Leatherneck Magazine in uniform, gathered at the Globe & Laurel Restaurant outside Quantico on October 24, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the magazine. (L-R) All retirees: CWO4 Bill Parker , Assistant Editor-Publisher; and combat correspondents Capt Bob Bowen , MGySgt Ed Evans , and MSgt Paul Thompson .

The USS HUE CITY will be coming to New York City, docking at the Staten Island Pier over Veterans Day weekend. Danny Gillen is the Captain of the ship and another Breezy Pointer Lt. Cmdr. Tommy McDonald flies his helicopter off the Hue City. The ship will be available for tours as listed below: NOVEMBER 10 10:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. NOVEMBER 11 10:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. NOVEMBER 12 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. You are welcome to bring spouses, children & grandchildren & fellow veterans. You

Cpl. Brandon Maldonado , a graphics illustrator by trade, learned still and video photography during his latest deployment, landing this shot in the 2018 Marine Corps Association calendar. Maldanado, a native of Hayward, California, was assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

October 9, 2017, is Joe’s 106th birthday and the D-Day, or "Delivery Day," of our request and petition to the US Secretary of the Navy. In fact, our letter and petition reached the Pentagon Thursday morning, but clearing security takes a few days. By tomorrow, the package should be on the Secretary’s desk. We delivered 2,054 signatures with our letter, and over 800 more from the online petition will be delivered electronically tomorrow. I’m hoping by the time the online sig

Holy South Pacific, Batman!  Yup, as of 1 October 2017 our warrior-storytellers are now known as “Combat Mass Communicators.”   Those currently on active duty are respectfully referred to as “legacy” combat camera or  public affairs Marines – but from here on out, they will learn, teach, lead and fight as fire-breathing, one-call-gets-it-all jacks-of-all-trade. Staff sergeants and above, no matter what MOS they grew up in, are now designated “Communication Strategy and Opera

Lt. Col. Michael Armistead has been appointed to the post of USMCCCA Expeditionary Liaison by national president Keith Oliver . Armistead is stationed at Camp Lejeune as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Communication Strategy and Operations. The mustanger’s USMCCCA assignment was designed specifically to “help us lean forward in including deployed Marine storytellers in annual awards submissions and correspondence,” Oliver said. Keith said “his Association duties mean keepi

Retired mustang Maj. Nat Fahy has been appointed chair of the 2018 USMCCCA Training Symposium, National President Keith Oliver announced today. Set for Aug. 20-23 at the New Bern, North Carolina DoubleTree Hotel, the CCs’ annual gathering will feature “robust professional development value for our active duty Marines,” said Oliver, “and Nat Fahy is in the perfect position to help us achieve that.” An oft-deployed PAO who served in Afghanistan, Cuba and Desert Storm , Fahy

President’s Notes Lance Cpl. Roderick Jacquote was our latest cover shooter for Leatherneck , capturing an image for the September “Magazine of the Marines.” The shot featured Marines hard at work prepping precision airdrops during training at MCAS Yuma – demonstrating that the Corps is still very much in the parachute business (as it was in its infancy when CC legend, the late Col. Tom Fields , was commanding infantry units in the 1940s). Jacquote, from Sugarland, Texas,