The American Legion Announces Recipients of 4th Estate Journalism Awards
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INDIANAPOLIS, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A central Florida television station, an Illinois newspaper and a popular website will receive The American Legion s Fourth Estate Award during the 102nd National Convention of the nation s largest veterans organization in Phoenix, on September 2.
The Fourth Estate Award has been presented annually by The American Legion since 1958 for outstanding achievement in the field of journalism. Nominations in 2021 were considered in three categories: broadcast, print and online media. They were selected by the organization s Media & Communications Commission earlier this month and announced today.
1. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
Force Design 2030 (Washington DC: March 2020).
2. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
The 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Commandant’s Planning Guidance (Washington, DC: 16 July 2019).
3. Department of the Navy,
Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power (Washington, DC: December 2020).
4. Megan Eckstein, “Marines Testing Regiment at Heart of Emerging Island-Hopping Future,”
USNI News, 4 June 2020.
5. See, for example: Dakota Wood, “The Marines: To Boldly Go Where the Corps Has Gone Before,”
The Washington Times, 24 June 2020; Frank G. Hoffman, “Still First to Fight?: Shaping the 21st Century Marine Corps,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2020; Mark Cancian, “The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China,” Center for Strategic International Studies, 25 March 2020; and William S. Lind, “The View from Olympus: Did the Marine Corps Just Commit Suicide?”
Nearly 40% of the 123,000 Marines who have had the chance to receive the vaccine for the illness caused by the coronavirus have turned it down, according to force-wide data obtained by Military.com.
About 75,500 Marines are fully or partially vaccinated against COVID-19, which has killed almost 3 million people worldwide, including two dozen U.S. troops. Another 48,000 Marines who ve been given the chance to take one of the vaccinations, which medical experts say significantly decrease the likelihood one will die or require hospitalization from the disease, have declined it, Marine Corps data shows.
The Marine Corps is the first military service to release detailed data, first reported by CNN, on the take-rate for vaccinations offered to uniformed personnel. The Defense Department is not currently allowed to require the shots without consent since the vaccines are currently under an emergency-use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Marines in California are being investigated for possible ties to missing explosives and ammunition.
Few details have been released, but a sergeant faces charges, and another service member is awaiting a federal hearing.
Marines at a Southern California military base are being investigated for possible ties to missing explosives and ammunition.
A sergeant at Camp Pendleton is in custody and facing charges, and another service member is awaiting a federal hearing in connection to the case, said 2nd Lt. Kyle McGuire, a spokesman for 1st Marine Division.
Few details have been made public about the investigation, which McGuire said is unrelated to 10 pounds of C-4 explosives that disappeared from another California base Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms last month.
US Navy/PO3 Shawn J. Stewart
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 returned to California last week after a 10-month deployment with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
It was the Marine Corps final F/A-18 Hornet carrier deployment, officials said in a news release about the historic mission.
Marine CorpsF/A-18 Hornets have flown off the flight deck of a Navy aircraft carrier for the last time.
Members of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323, known as the Death Rattlers, returned to California last week after a 10-month deployment with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. It was the final F/A-18 Hornet carrier deployment for the Marine Corps, officials said in a news release about the historic mission.