State of INFOCOM September 2014 Greetings Marines, I’m just getting my report in just under the wire. I spent last weekend in Daytona Beach at the yearly Klingon Feast. This was my 4th year attending. I always have a great time at the feast, I usually see folks there I only see once a year. […]
State of the NCO Corps September 2014 Greetings Marines! I had this ready to go several days ago, but just before I posted it, I received the news of the untimely passing of LGN Gary “Tiny” Hollifield, and I decided to do what amounted to a substantial rewrite. So, with a bit of further ado, […]
State of FINCOM September 2014 Approximately Thursday of last week, the SFMC Quartermaster site lost it’s ability to use PayPal for payments due to some kind of update either from computer ops or DreamHost. Infocom was on top of this and has now fixed the site to include using PayPal for merchandise payments. The numbers […]
State of the SFMC September 2014 Greetings Marines, Let’s get straight to it. Revised IC Awards List This has been a long time in coming, but it has been checked several times to ensure accuracy and completeness. Distinguished Service Cross Dorffner, Joseph Olson, Linda Cross of Honor Smiddy, Josiah Sword of Honor Dean, Bobby Shield […]
State of the NCO Corps August 2014 Greetings Marines! Have a seat here in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO club, which finally re-opened after that “incident” during the IM “Pity Party” ( note to that Armor SGT – next time, ASK before deciding we needed […]
State of FORCECOM August 2014 Good Day, Marines, This will be a brief note from the Office of Forces Command. Now with another International Marine Muster come and gone and with the major awards season over, now is a good time to check out your personnel records on the database. No one’s going to know […]
<![CDATA[ State of INFOCOM August 2014 Greetings Marines, First off, I wanted to say I had a great time at IC this year. It was great meeting new folks and seeing friends I’ve haven’t seen in a while. The flight to and from Chicago was uneventful. The possible problems with the hotel turned out to […]
State of INFOCOM July 2014 Greetings Marines, Before getting into the monthly report I would like to mention something that happened to me last week. My Mom called and told me she had received an email from her bank saying her account had been suspended and it required her login into the Bank with a […]
State of the NCO Corps July 2014 Greetings Marines! Welcome once again to the booth in the back in the corner in the dark of my local NCO club, where tossing in a repainted dummy grenade will probably get you a good seat in a hurry, but you‘re also likely to get something less desirable […]
State of FORCECOM July 2014 At Ease, Marines, My apologies that real life stepped in the way of my getting this report out in a timely manner. As all of you know sometimes ‘stuff happens’. Or in my current case ‘health happens’. Nothing drastic, but just enough to totally throw my usual schedules off. Now […]