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The 2020 Board of Directors for the USMCCCA has hit the ground running, considering a myriad of topics to make our Association more in tune with our active duty component. Shortly after our first election in recent memory, the board met to get the new members oriented and new President Dan Clare appointed board members to serve on various committees. Vice President Shawn Rhodes was tasked with coming up with a business plan and Director Sharon Fox proposed an initiative t

Great interview with Shawn Rhodes, national vice president.

For those of you not on Facebook, on Sept. 4, Kate Stark, executive director of the USMCCCA, was admitted into the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla., with symptoms of a stroke. She subsequently ended up going to an inpatient Community Living Center at the VA Hospital in Lake City, Fla., for rehabilitation therapy. She was released Sept. 26 with most of her left side mobility restored, though she reluctantly admits she could probably still get her a** ki

Check your mail box. Your annual journal was mailed yesterday. If you have an active membership and do not receive your copy in a week or so, please contact hq@usmccca.org with your snail mail address. Many thanks to our editors, Dan Clare , National President, Teresa Stanker, Mike Eck and Lee Tibbetts . Also thanks to our contributors, Keith Oliver, Bryan Nygaard and Amy Forsythe.

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The first election conducted by the USMCCCA in recent memory resulted in four out of five candidates for the USMCCCA Board of Directors earning seats. The election was conducted at the Association’s Annual Business Meeting, Aug 2, in Atlanta, GA. Bryan McDonnell garnered 72 votes and Sharon Fox got 65 votes. These candidates will fill the two open Director seats on the board. Karen Anne Holliday and Conner Downey received the third and fourth most votes and the two wil

For those who were not able to make it to the 2019 COMMSTRAT Training & Leadership Development Summit in Atlanta last month, Victoria Conkel Turney was awarded the USMCCCA's prestigious Donald L. Dickson award at the annual awards banquet. Below are the words she'd like to share: Dear fellow CC warriors, Please allow me this opportunity to say a special heartfelt thank you for honoring me with the Donald L. Dickson Memorial award at this year’s CC Conference. Yes, I was

MSgt Clinton Firstbrook sends us this photo of members from II MEF COMMSTRAT and II MIG COMMSTRAT. They conducted a battlefield visit and study earlier this month at the New Bern Battlefield Park in North Carolina. Photo by Cpl. Tiana Boyd

Does anyone know of any CCs who have passed away since August of last year besides Dale Cook? Please contact National Chaplain Frank Wiley before the conference in Atlanta so that we can honor our own.

Retired Marine Capt. Dale Dye has been awarded the 2019 DAV (Disabled American Veterans) Bugle Award at the organization’s national convention in Orlando, Florida, for his lifetime of achievement in ensuring accurate, honorable and realistic portrayals of military service in film, television, print and digital media. A DAV life member and decorated veteran who was wounded in combat three times in Vietnam, Dye found a unique way to continue serving after his illustrious mili