As Pfc. Daniel Kujanpaa’s photo attests, Arnold, Md.’s Bay Hills Country Club was an idyllic setting for the Maryland CC Chapter’s first annual golf tournament – but only for part of the day. Driving rain caused officials to shut down the course within three holes of the finish, giving Read more…
Sam Stavisky, author of Marine Combat Correspondent: World War II in the Pacific, and a veteran Washington Post staffer, was one of the original Denig’s Demons. He died Sunday morning at 93. Funeral will be held in Washington Thursday, September 25 with burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Capt. Shane Pollard, a student in the Maneuver Captains Career Course, chats with authors Joe Galloway, center, and retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore about Vietnam. Galloway and Moore signed 200 copies of their new book, “We are Soldiers Still“, at Infantry Hall, Fort Benning, Ga.
To read about his impressions, go here: http://www.forbes.com/media/2008/08/20/marines-media-iraq-biz-media-cx_jb_0821brady.html
Florida Chapter President Red Carpenter presents out-going national president Keith Oliver with a check in the amount of $7,500. Two thousand goes to the Wounded Marines Career Foundation – a group that is training wounded Marines in new careers in Media arts. The first class of ten videographers, photographers and Read more…
Deepest thanks from Wounded Marine Careers Foundation! “What an inspiration last week to be in the midst of so many who have served – and are serving – as combat correspondents and in Public Affairs! It was a true honor to participate in the USMCCCA annl. gathering and we thank you Read more…
Celebrity columnist/author Jim Brady of Parade magazine fame received an honorary life membership at the business brunch Friday Aug. 15 as the 2008 USMCCCA Annual Conference wrapped up in San Antonio. Pictured with Brady is outgoing national president Keith Oliver (left) and Leatherneck editor and publisher Walt Ford. Watch this Read more…
Famed war reporter Joe Galloway (left) and Middle East News managing editor Claude Salhani are among the panelists slated to participate in 67th Annual U. S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association Annual Conference in San Antonio Aug. 12-15. Both journalists have a long history of field duty with the Marines Read more…
Tom Kerr says some CCs may want to see some pictures taken in Korea 1950-1953 by a Combat Reporter.
by Master Sgt. Keith Milks Lance Cpl. Shawn M. Statz, a combat photographer assigned to the 2nd Bn., 7th Marines, was wounded June 18 in a firefight with Taliban insurgents near the village of Musa Qal-eh, in Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand Province. When his platoon’s Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Read more…