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 This past week, I asked the staff here at Division of Public Affairs to join me at the Pentagon Memorial on the occasion of Osama […]
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Fellow Marines – This is truly a remarkable time in our history to be serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. Marines in Afghanistan as part of Regional Command Southwest continue […]
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Fellow Marines – When faced with nearly any professional dilemma or conflict, Marine Infantry and PAO Trane McCloud would respond with the question, “What does the Marine Corps Order say?” […]
By Don Knight, Awards Chair Start with about 1,500 entries. Assemble 10 professional civilian judges. Add 40 hours of judging over 3 days, then announce the winners in more than 40 categories involving photography, print journalism, videography and radio. That’s the recipe for another Merit Awards Program, a joint effort […]
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Marines – The New Year brings with it many changes for our Corps. Just last week, the Secretary of Defense rolled out his proposed efficiencies of which many affect our […]
Marine Combat Correspondent Cyril John O’Brien was laid to rest on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, five days following his 92nd birthday. Many were assembled on a spacious, snow-covered burial ground appropriately named “Gates to Heaven” in Montgomery County, MD, a dozen miles north of Washington, D.C. Two Marines removed an […]
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Marines –The New Year brings with it many changes for our Corps. Just last week, the Secretary of Defense rolled out his proposed efficiencies of which many affect our Corps. […]
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
Marines
Many thanks for a great year. There was tremendous accomplishment from the 2009 Thomas Jefferson Awards – those who are the very best across the entire Defense Department:
Sgt Mark Fayloga was named the Military Photographer of the Year.
In April, Marines also placed first in three of the four top outstanding individual categories for the 2009 TJ Awards Program. Staff Sgt Luis Agostini, public affairs chief, Regimental Combat Team 7, was announced the Department of Defense Print Journalist of the Year.
Sgt Todd Hunter, production chief, Marines TV, Defense Media Activity-Marine Corps, was announced the Department of Defense Broadcast Journalist of the Year. Lance Cpl Jad Sleiman, combat correspondent, Marine Forces Reserve, earned the title of Outstanding New Writer. The last year a Marine earned this title was in 2006.
The Director’s Cut: DivPA’s Monthly Newsletter to the Marine Corps’ PA Community is now online you can download it here Marines – It is with solemn regret that I note the death of 20-year-old LCpl Ralph Fabbri, combat camera Marine, who was killed in action last month in Afghanistan. I […]