In Store Now
Interview with Col Wesley L. Fox, Medal of Honor
Bob Stevens, Lockheed Martin Salutes the Marine Corps
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Welcome to our Leatherneck website. I hope you are finding the content interesting and easily accessed. The Marine Corps Association CEO and President’s annual report to membership is in our March print and digital editions of Leatherneck. I hope all our members take the time to read it and find out more about the status of the Marine Corps Association—our Leatherneck publisher. In addition to the various statistics in this report, you will note that MajGen Les Palm, USMC (Ret), is departing as the Association’s president and chief executive officer after 12 years at the helm. Our Board of Governors has selected MajGen Ed Usher III as his replacement. We will most certainly miss the positive leadership of MajGen Palm. Under his leadership there have been significant MCA advances—building a new MCA annex here in Quantico, adding professional dinners and luncheons to our list of offerings, increasing awards for Marines from around 5,000 awards each year to just at 9,000 awards in 2009, adding The Marine Shop as a member benefit and much more. We wish MajGen Palm and his gracious wife, Suzanne, the very best and look forward to their continuing contributions. Who knows, now we may get that artillery in Vietnam article penned by the General? We also welcome aboard MajGen Usher who comes to the Association from his last active-duty assignment as the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. Read MajGen Usher’s official biography. This month, March, also brings the premiere of the HBO series, "The Pacific." All that we've seen whets the Marine appetite for more on Marines in World War II. So, we have helped satiate the hunger with this March issue. We have a feature on the making of the HBO series, an article on one of the principal Marine characters, Eugene Sledge, and a look at employment of machine guns in the first half of last century—this in tribute to GySgt "Manila John" Basilone and Platoon Sergeant (later colonel) Mitch Paige, who both earned the Medal of Honor employing heavy machine guns on Guadalcanal. Looking ahead to the April issue, you will find a brutally direct and expansive feature on the second Battle of Fallujah by Dick Camp, a Post of the Corps article on the Marine Corps Network Operations and Security Center, Quantico, Va., an update article on Marines in Haiti and our cover story on the Virginia Military Institute—these and more, plus our regular coverage of the ongoing War on Terror. I think you will enjoy the broad spectrum of content in our April digital and print editions of Leatherneck. Also, beginning 1 April, the Marine Corps Association will raise both officer and enlisted membership rates and subscriber rates. It is not something we sought to do in this difficult economic environment, but for your Association to continue to provide professional development opportunities, awards, unit libraries and other efforts in support of Marines, this rate hike is very necessary. Of course, if you “ship over” early and extend your membership or subscription prior to 1 April, you can take advantage of current pricing. As usual, we can only improve if you remain in touch. We would like to hear your thoughts, so e-mail us at: leatherneck@mca-marines.org or call toll-free: 800-336-0291, ext. 115.
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