Professional Organizations/Associations

[phrogdriver]

Marine Corps Aviation Association.

Marine Corps Association.

The former for the stuff it does for the Marine aviation community. The second for the Marine Corps Gazette.

I'm the first to admit, I am sort of an every-other-year member of each, but they're both good organizations. You'll also find some COs are pretty hardover on PME and such. I'm kind of a middle-of-the-roader on that. Either you keep up via the magazines, or you read a military history book, or you're currently enrolled in a course (EWS, C&S, etc.). Helps keep the PME mark in fitreps to the right while getting your learn-on.

 

[usmarinemike]

Second the MCA for Marine types. I liked Leatherneck as a young Marine and now I am pretty crazy about the Gazette. MCA is truly fashioned to be a professional association dedicated to the advancement of the profession of arms. Does the Navy have a such association?

 

[phrogdriver]

I would say the US Naval Institute, with their "Proceedings" is the closest equivalent, though obviously with a much more nautical flair. Then again, articles from some of the non-combat arms MOSs tend to take away from the Gazette's warfighter aura. "Ordering the Future: A New T/O for Station Ground Supply," or some such. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

 

[mmx1]

Proceedings publishes stuff about the Marines and Coast Guard, too; they have an annual Marine issue.

 

[bunk22]

What about Penthouse?

...them too