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CCHQ has been advised that two combat correspondents have been wounded in action in Afghanistan in recent months. Sgt. Dorian Gardner , previously with the 2nd Marine Division, is now with the Wounded Warrior Battalion-West. Cpl. Eugenio Montanez Jr ., is currently back on duty with the 1st Marine Division. Both are now eligible for Honorary Life Membership as recipients of the Purple Heart Medal.

Defense Media Activity, (AFN-BC - Riverside, CA) is looking for a Director, American Forces Network-Broadcast Center, GS-0301-15. The Job Opportunity Announcement (DMA-11-496768-MP) opens on Tuesday, June 28, 2011  and closes on Tuesday, July 6, 2011. This announcement is open to Status Candidates. For your convenience, the JOA is located at the following websites: http://www.dma.mil or http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=100533848 .

Virginia "Ginny" Bueno was back at her alma mater for Public Affairs Qualification Course graduation speaker duties on June 17. The retired chief warrant officer and Somalia veteran is the Director of Public Affairs and Communication for the Washington Navy Yard-based Naval Facilities Engineering Command. (Photo by TSgt Larry Simmons, USAF-ret)

Your , son of active duty member, , currently on terminal leave from the Corps for communications studies leading to a master's degree at Boston University, Boston, MA.  Cpl. Nola won the 2010 Sam Stavisky Combat Reporting Merit Award as well as several second places and honorable mention in the program. , daughter of Life Member

Defense Media Activity, (Air Force Production Directorate) is looking for a Supervisory Visual Information Specialist, GS-1084-13. The Job Opportunity Announcement (DMA-11-484329-MP) opens on Thursday, June 23, 2011 and closes on Thursday, July 07, 2011. This announcement is open to US Citizens and Status Candidates. For your convenience, the JOA is located at the following websites: http://www.dma.mil or http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?caller=ftva.aspx&OPMControl=23

CCHQ has announced that the registration fee for the New Orleans conference originally announced at $115 will be dropped to $100 effective immediately. Anyone who may have registered at the $115 fee should call or email CCHQ and request a refund.

The National Museum of the Marine Corps seeks our help: We have two curators conducting research for a temporary exhibit that will highlight the 10th anniversary of 9/11. A portion of this exhibit is intended to focus on Marines who enlisted or sought commissions as a result of 9/11. After months of research the curators have reached a bit of an impasse. Their deadline for information gathering concludes on 1 July and they have not yet been able to find enough people who ha

Col. Bryan Salas The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Fellow Marines Every day in our Marine Corps, our brothers and sisters serving in Public Affairs are charged with communicating with global publics about the strategic events taking place in every “Clime and Place.” From our focus of effort in Helmand province, Afghanistan, to the high seas of the western Pacific, our Marines are operating a