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Time to get your entries submitted for the 2016 Visual Information and Excellence in Communication (VIEC), Distinguished Performance Award and Combat Camera Awards. DATES/GENERAL INFORMATION Program year: January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 Award Submission deadline: Feb. 19, 2016 Award judging: Feb. 22, 2016 Award winner announcement: NLT March 31 2016 Thomas Jefferson Awards deadline: March 11, 2016 First place winners are awarded a cash prize, plaque and certific

CC Chas Henry has produced a series of brief radio reports for the 25th anniversary of the Gulf War. A Desert Storm veteran himself, he is now a news anchor and national security correspondent. Take a listen: Gulf War 25th Anniversary Features from Westwood One News Reported by National Security Correspondent Chas Henry Overview https://soundcloud.com/chas-henry-media/gulf-war-25th-anniversary-overview Are Gulf War Lessons Applicable Today? https://soundcloud.com/chas-henry

Our final accounting of an eventful year (2015) can be found in the USMCCCA Annual Journal that went in the mail to all member this afternoon. This year’s cover by award-winning Sgt. Reese Lodder , depicts a poolee performing an initial strength test BEFORE heading off to recruit training. This year’s edition contains more story content than ever before. Amy Forsythe remembers Maj. Megan McClung our first female Marine officer to be killed in combat. “Be Brief, Be Bold

Congrats to Col. John "Doc" Church, newly named President of Valley Forge Military Academy & College . Press follows: WAYNE, PA – The Board of Trustees of Valley Forge Military Academy & College has unanimously approved the appointment of Colonel John C. Church, Jr., USMCR , as President. Colonel Church will take office at the end of this academic year, succeeding current President Dr. Stacey R. Sauchuk. Colonel Church is a combat decorated US Marine Corps Reservist, educat

Congratulations to Cpl. Cory C. Schubert for earning Defense Media Activity's Warrior of the Quarter. He is now stationed at AFN Iwakuni where according to Schubert, "I do a variety of different tasks. I cover the daily production mission along with producing 2 video spots a week and COM CALS. I also fill in as need be for the Radio and shoot News stories to help the News teams accomplish the mission. I have previously sat in for the Radio Department NCOIC and from November

Elsewhere on today's pages we saw with great pleasure Brian Tuthill promoted to gunnery sergeant while going to college under a Corps' program that will ultimately see him graduated a second lieutenant. We met this young Marine when he was a corporal at a USMCCCA Conference a number of years back. Having seen a M.A.S.H. TV show where Tuthill was a figment of Hawkeye's imagination and inserted to drive everyone nuts, when we met Brian the name immediately jogged our MASH mem

CC Paul Younghaus passed away on January 6, 2016, after a lengthy illness.

The History of Marine Corps Combat Correspondents & Combat Camera Marines (A Concept) In the mid-1980s, veteran CC Gary Cameron was commissioned by the United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association (USMCCCA) to develop a history of the CCs, broadcasters and photographers from the beginnings in 1941 through the terrorist attack on the Marine Barracks in Beirut. His book was entitled “ Last to Know, First to Go .” Many felt there were quite a few things wrong w

Defense Media Activity (Headquarters), is looking for a Public Affairs Specialist , GS-1035-13. The Job Opportunity Announcement (DMA-16-1574033-B), opens on Tuesday, December 15, 2015, and closes on Sunday, January 3, 2016. This announcement is open to all US Citizens and Status Candidates (Merit Promotion and VEOA Eligibles). For your convenience, the JOA is located at the following website: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/424177800 .

Combat photographer David Pafford will be speaking at the Thompson Falls Public Library , Thompson Falls, Montana Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.