The Annual Merit Awards Program is ours. We promote this because we believe today’s warriors are writing, broadcasting or making a pictorial history just as we have done over the years. We need to show them our support. If you are willing to sponsor one or more of the awards Read more…
Sgt Todd Hunter is the 2009 DoD Broadcast Journalist of the Year
Staff Sgt. Luis R. Agostini is the 2009 DoD Print Journalist of the Year
Marines have netted two of the top spots in the annual DoD Thomas Jefferson Awards competition.
One of the Marines is CC member, Staff Sgt. Luis R. Agostini who was named the 2009 DoD Print Journalist of the Year. Agostini is a frequent name here on the site (to read more about him click here.) The other winner is broadcaster Sgt Todd Hunter who receives the 2009 DoD Broadcast Journalist of the Year.
We congratulate these two and also the following Marines who won. (A full list of winners can be viewed after the jump.)
The Following Have Been Announced As WInners Of The Thomas Jefferson Awards, Print Division:
The Following Have Been Announced As WInners Of The Thomas Jefferson Awards, Broadcast Division:
It’s time to start registering for the 2010 Annual Conference which will be held at the Silver Legacy Resort Casino August 23-27. Again this year we are offering a member-only early bird rate of: $110 until May 31. From June 1 to June 30 the rate will be $120. From Read more…
The second 2010 issue of “Now Hear This” the official USMCCCA newsletter, should be arriving in your mailbox soon. If you DO NOT receive it, then you need to make sure CCHQ has your correct mailing address. You can MAKE SURE you get future newsletters by using the membership update form Read more…
Check out our new and improved DINFOS Web site. This is one of several initiatives to “practice what we preach” at the schoolhouse.
Soon the schoolhouse will be physically expanded to accommodate 30 percent more students and resident instructors. But first, the Public Affairs Leadership Dept (PALD) must be relocated into trailers so current cubicle spaces may be converted into classrooms. It’s not just your grandfather’s DINFOS anymore. Old classes have been revised and updated and new classes added. The inaugural lessons on social media and strategic communication were launched as part of the Public Affairs Qualification Course just after the first of the year.
Sugar Ray Leonard poses with LtCol. Player following the Annual Fight Night fundraiser in the District of Columbia. Both Leonard and Ken Norton were on tap for the recent event.
CC LtCol. Riccoh Player holds one of the most unique jobs in the Marine Corps, that of a Legislative Fellow on Capitol Hill in Washington. We asked him recently about the job and what made it interesting for him.
“I’ve been assigned to the Veterans Affairs Committee with specific duties on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. My tasks include, but are not limited to, tracking the VA Claims backlog, answering constituent questions, concerns and complaints, and tracking and analyzing VA related media trends. We also provide a sounding board for concerned citizens who provide advice and ideas.
CC member Frank Walker and his wife, Karen, reside in Costa Rica. Periodically he sends updates on their lifestyle to friends. He and Karen have been on several of the CC cruises. In this, he relates the experiences of his Marine dad in World War I.
Frank Walker's father, Anan Walker
My dad, Anan Orville Walker, as a Sergeant of Marines served with Company “B”, 11th Marines, American Expeditionary Forces during WWI. He never talked much about his experiences in the Corps but you could hear the pride in his voice and could see that certain gleam in his eyes when he did. This was his favorite story:
Shortly after the Armistice which was signed on November 11, 1918 Company “B” found itself ordered to settle in on the out skirts of a small French village. The 11th Marines were a machine gun outfit back then, not the artillery outfit they are now.
An army unit was also ordered to the same village but someone was thinking and put the doughboys in a field on the opposite side of town.
Jeff Robertson, an old boss and currently the Director of Media Relations for Customs and Border Patrol wanted me to put the feelers out for anyone interested in a technical editor position being created at CBP soon. No firm salary range yet but they’re shooting for GS-12 to 14. If Read more…
Hey members! Would you like to promote your website or business? If you are a paid member of the USMCCCA you can do this for FREE. Just submit your URL to the webmaster here. Websites will be rotated and posted on slow news days. Marines, throw some business to these folks, Read more…