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Transportation- The 2 options when traveling from the San Diego International Airport are either SuperShuttle at the current rate of $12 per person, each way or a Taxi which is between $20-25, each way. The Crowne Plaza San Diego offers a complimentary area shuttle to Old Town and the Fashion Valley Mall on scheduled times throughout the day as well as the San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld once daily.

As part of the USMCCCA's efforts to assist and mentor today's combat correspondents, our board last year approved a decision to develop a scholarship program for our Distinguished Performance Award winning Marines in lieu of a check for $100. To that end we have asked for support from the membership and our Foundation to pay for and provide scholarship to several of our winners. This year we are partnering with Lynda.Com , which provides nearly 6,000 web based training cou

If your name is listed below, you get a free meal at our annual Conference & Training Symposium, Aug. 21-24, 2017 in San Diego. (That's a $50 value) Plus you will receive recognition and a certificate. Please ask your commands if you can attend. Uniform is Dress Blues. Contact Jack Paxton, executive director at 352-748-4698 or email: usmccca@cfl.rr.com. Cpl. Aaron Henson MCAS-I Second Training Documentation Cpl. Aaron Patterson MCBH First Feature Photo Cpl. Amaia Unanue III-

Donald H. Gee Sr ., a longtime Chalfont resident, passed away on Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Doylestown Hospital. He was 77. Don was the husband of Iris Gee. Born in Bristol and raised in Warrington, Don was a son of the late Harry and Alberta Gee. He was a 1957 Central Bucks High School graduate. Don was a proud Gunnery Sergeant with the US Marine Corps retiring in 1977, after 20 years of service. Following his retirement, he remained active with the military as the Public

Taken from the Summer 2017 edition of  Keystone Leatherneck : On April 28, 2017, Valley Forge Military Academy and College held a wonderful dedication ceremony for a Chair of Honor for Prisoners of War-Missing in Action in Wayne, Pa. Commander Paul Galanti USN (Ret), a seven-year POW during the Vietnam War, accepted the chair from Colonel John C. “Doc” Church, Jr .,USMCR (Ret.), president of VFMAC. This chair symbolizes there will always be a place at Valley Forge Military

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Thomas "Ace" Peters writes: Its with sadness that I inform you Eddie Kafafian passed this morning. (July 9, 2017) CCHQ will post more info as it becomes available.

President’s Notes Cpl. Zachery Laning’s compelling shot of  11 th MEU artillery operations in northern Syria garnered him a great cover just in time for the 4 th of July. The Chincoteague, Virginia native is a videographer by training (see some of his work in that realm @ https://www.dvidshub.net/video/505252/pacific-fury ) but  his NCOIC, Gunnery Sgt. Robert Brown of Spring Lake, North Carolina said Laning used the  unit’s recent  far-ranging deployment to “cross-tra

The USMCCCA Board of Directors has announced that Maximilian Uriarte , AKA Terminal Lance, is the 2017 Brig. Gen. Robert L. Denig Sr. Memorial Distinguished Service Award winner. If the name does not immediately come to you, we would bet a year’s membership he is known by thousands of Marines who saw similar actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.  He caught our attention several years ago with his weekly strip in Marine Corps Times .  When his book, The White Donkey, Terminal Lan