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The third quarter of “Now Hear This” the official USMCCCA newsletter, should be arriving in your mailbox soon. If you DO NOT receive it, then you need to make sure CCHQ has your correct mailing address. You can MAKE SURE you get future newsletters by using the membership update form here .

MGySgt. Bob Springer, 84, suffered a heart attack and died in San Diego, CA on October 9. Services will be held at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery on November 12. The information was passed to CCHQ by Bob's oldest daughter, Rusty Rodriguez who indicated that Bob had been in apparently good health. As Rusty said "he was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather and we all miss him terribly."

https://youtu.be/2pbqBa37rnc Click below for part two of the interview: https://youtu.be/FRCqgIxNJbo

Jack Paxton and Dave Biesel are attempting to put together a brief historical piece for our 75th anniversary meeting in Fredericksburg, VA next August. Hopefully, the publication we prepare and distribute will lead to an extension of our current unofficial history, "Last to Know, First to Go" . To do this we need your help. If you read Last to Know, you know that the early CCs were critical of the system and said so. We would like the same feelings from you. If you were a

Defense Media Activity (AFRTS/AFN-BC), is looking for an Audiovisual Production Specialist , GS-1071-11. The Job Opportunity Announcement (DMA-16-1508786-B) opens on Friday, October 16, 2015 and closes on Sunday, November 1, 2015. 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/418875300

On March 27, a Marine operating an excavator along the north wall of the National Museum of the Marine Corps drove the machine’s bucket into the earth, officially breaking ground on an historic expansion of the Nation’s tribute to Marine Corps history. That moment was the first step of a long journey that the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation , Museum staff, and teams of engineers and tradesmen will take over the next four years to complete this magnificent institution. When

Russell W. Savatt, Jr. MGySgt. USMC (Ret.) died peacefully on September 7, 2015, at his home in Poway, California. He was 87 years old. Services will be held Wednesday, September 30, 2015, at 11:00 am at the Miramar National Cemetery. Russell was raised in Kings Park, NY and is preceded in death by his parents Russell W. & Helen Savatt and his sister Sally (Joe) LaValle. Russell is survived by his wife Josephine, four children: Laura Reynolds (Jim), Russell W. Savatt III (

The Archive of Modern American Warfare at Texas Tech University is asking for donations from military veterans. The Archive is particularly interested in collecting digital material such as emails, blogs and other personal websites, text and instant messages, word processing documents, oral histories, digital photographs, digital videos, and digital audio recordings. These materials are of vital importance because digital materials are more susceptible to deterioration over

There has been much traffic recently concerning Norm Hatch . Various folks have visited him in the Hermitage Senior Living Center in Alexandria, VA. Walt Ford spoke to him recently. We print his remarks below: Norm has moved to Room 319, in the Hermitage Senior Living Center. Mailing address: Major Norm Hatch, USMC (Ret) Hermitage Senior Living, Northern Virginia Room 319 5000 Fairbanks Ave. Alexandria, VA 22311 His wife, Loy, is in a room on the 4th floor, so he may

As one wag attending our 74th conference put it: “New Bern was a ‘bear’ of a town.” Now, whether or not he was referring to the many bear statues around town or the fact that New Bern takes its name from Bern, Switzerland (named after the German word ‘bear’) we do not know. Apparently though, he and the 65 other former CCs and ComCam Marines and their wives/guests had a good time during our August 16-20 Annual Conference. While it may not have been the easiest venue to reach