The Florida Chapter of the USMCCCA will hold it’s 7th annual benefit golf tournament on 3 June 2011. The tournament will be held at Ridgewood Lakes Golf and Country Club in Davenport,FL. The tournament features an 0800 shot gun start, putting contest and lunch. As always the tournament is “kicked off” Read more…
Joseph Galloway, honorary life member
By Joseph L. Galloway. McClatchy Newspapers
To quote Mr. Dickens they were the best of times and the worst of times. This is Galloway writing -30- and a farewell to this weekly column after almost seven years and wrapping up half a century in the newspaper business. Oh, I will still write an occasional op-ed piece when the bastards in Washington, D.C., blast across the line into moron territory, and there’s always another book waiting to be written.
Our art director, Chuck Beveridge has created a terrific self-promotional piece. Click on the photo to download it. Also please pass it on to anyone who may need a graphic artist or art director….
The L.A. Chapter officers and board had its first official meeting in October and reviewed the Chapter’s operational status. Financially, we need to rebuild our treasury. You may not be aware of this: over the course of four plus years, Bob Long (past president) has been personally financing many of the Read more…
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Marines – January is here! Hit the ground running! Part of the end state in the Director’s Guidance “Share the Courage” discusses the PAO’s role on the staff. It says Read more…
Dan Bisher and your executive director would like to hear from anyone who knows or knew former Marine CC Bob Shuth. Please contact CCHQ at usmccca@cfl.rr.com if you have any information.
Tom Hanks, Capt Dale Dye and Steven Spielberg discuss filming on the set of HBO's "The Pacific." Photo by David James/HBO
CC Lifemember, Capt Dale Dye on the set of HBO's "The Pacific." Photo by David James/HBO
By Capt. Dale Dye USMC (Ret), Senior Military Advisor on HBO’s “The Pacific.”
It took nearly two years of hard campaigning to get it right but in March of this year American TV audiences will get an unflinching, historically accurate and very absorbing look at World War II in the Pacific as fought by men of the vaunted 1st Marine Division.
In my billet as the Senior Military Advisor for this monster undertaking, Executive Producer Tom Hanks gave me a set of deceptively simple marching orders: “Get up under the helmet of those Marines and take the audience on the trip they made to hell and back between 1942 and 1945.” That’s what we did over the year we spent in shooting the project which HBO has given a simple, evocative title: “The Pacific.”
“Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Legendary John Basilone” is now out. Noted journalist, author and Marine James Brady, who received the prestigious Denig Award at our San Antonio Conference, died suddenly several months ago following the conference. The book was completed just prior to his death.
Welcome to final edition of the NYC Public Affairs monthly report for 2009. The material in this report provides information to Marines and friends of Marines in New York to help tell the Marine Corps story and create opportunities. As always, we look forward to your input as well. We look forward to a productive 2010 and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Veteran CC Cy O’Brien would like to hear from anyone who served with the following WWII CCs: Jerry O’Leary, Pat O’Sheal, Bill Burnett and Bill Ross. Cy has been asked to do an article about his service as CC and others who served with him. Either call Cy at 301.438.0209 Read more…