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CCHQ is closed. No additional registrations will be accepted until the Registration Desk at the Westin Hotel, New Orleans Conference site opens Monday at 1300.

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Each hotel CCHQ deals with charges for meeting rooms, the hospitality suite, and charges for setting up, tearing down, preparing for special events, etc. These are considered facilities charges. When CCHQ feels they have negotiated the best possible bottom line facilities price, we then ask the hotel for certain concessions. In most cases the hotels include food for certain events scheduled. For the New Orleans Conference, the Westin Hotel will offer food at the Welcome R

Former Gunnery Sgt. and CC Steve Stibbens has been named "Distinguished Alumni" at his old high school, Forest Ave. HS, in Dallas. He is a Life Member of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Assn. Stibbens joins such Forest Ave. alumni for the annual honor as Stanley Marcus (1921), who became a world class merchant noted for his Neiman-Marcus stores; Aaron Spelling (1940), Hollywood and TV Producer; Sir Morris E. Finneburg, Sr., (1919), an inventor in cryogenics and

Marine Corps Times (29 Aug edition) is carrying story and photo of Cpl. Aaron Mankin who will be honored with comedian Stephen Colbert Nov. 9 in New York at the Heroes Gala, sponsored by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Aaron will receive the Veterans Leadership Award for his part as spokesman for Operation Mend, a program at UCLA to provide reconstructive surgery to severely wounded combat veterans.

SGT MIGUEL CARRASCO, president of the USMCCCA's Maryland Chapter , got another DINFOS credential under his belt. The broadcasting instructor graduated Aug. 25 from the Joint Intermediate Public Affairs Specialist Course. He is shown receiving his diploma from Defense Information School Provost, Mike Gannon. (Larry Simmons photo)

By Lance Cpl. Victor Barrera Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune While others were down on the dirt in the prone, he was standing, sometimes with his back to the enemy hearing the mortars go over his head and bullets snap, a little too close to home. When others fixed bayonets to prepare for hand-to-hand combat from an oncoming Japanese charge, he positioned himself right in the middle of them and captured the first picture to ever show both sides of the war attacking. Retired M

Defense Media Activity, Special Staff is looking for an Equal Employment Manager , GS-0260-14. The Job Opportunity Announcement (DMA-11-524644-MP) opens on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 and closes on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. This announcement is open to Status Candidates. For your convenience, the JOA is located at the following websites: www.dma.mil or http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=101918330. Defense Media Activity, Acquisition and Procurement - Ft Meade, M

The New York Stock Exchange is urgently trying to find then, Maj. Rose-Ann Sgrignoli who sang as the NYSE opened following 9/11. Anyone who knows the major should email either CCHQ or Sgt. Randy Clinton at randyclinton@gmail.com .