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MCA Scuttlebutt
The Marine Corps Association is dedicated in its mission to support Today’s Marines. Our podcast, Scuttlebutt, seeks to create a forum to encourage and inspire Marines, former Marines, Marine families, and supporters of the Marine Corps to engage with issues that impact Marines and the Corps. Storytelling not only helps us unpack who we are, but brings us into conversation with the world and people around us. We will hear stories from Marines and civilians working to honor, uncover, and restore…
Episodes
- MCA Scuttlebutt
#266: Semper Cinema review of Beach Red
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring you another installment of Semper Cinema with our…
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#265: Fuji Fire with Chas Henry
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Chas Henry to the scuttlebutt. Chas is a retired…
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#264: Leadership Discussion with Sergeants Major Carlos Ruiz and Jacob Reiff
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we’re re-releasing our conversation with the Sergeant Major of…
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#263: Literary Lethality Reviews Ender’s Game with Mac Caltrider
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring another installment of our Literary Lethality series…
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#262: Marine Corps 2025 Male Athlete of the Year – Maj Kyle King
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Maj Kyle King to the scuttlebutt. Kyle is an…
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#261: VetTix with Col Steven Weintraub (Ret.)
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Steven Weintraub to the scuttlebutt. Steven is a…
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#260: Extreme Ownership with Rob Jones
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Rob Jones to the scuttlebutt. Rob is a retired…
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#259: Remembering 9/11 with Jason Thomas
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring you a very special episode in remembrance of the…
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#258: Transitioning with LtCol Josh Chartier (Ret.)
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome Josh Chartier to the scuttlebutt. Josh is a retired…
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#257: Ortiz’s War with Col Nicholas Reynolds (Ret.) and Katie Sanders
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Col Nicholas Reynolds (USMC Ret.) and Katie Sanders…
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#256: Semper Cinema – The Wind and the Lion with Josh Bates
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we bring you another installment of Semper Cinema with our review…
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#255: Semper Read with 2ndLt Steven Ramirez
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome 2ndLt Steven Ramirez to the scuttlebutt. Steven is a…
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#254: Characters, Storytelling, and Col John Ripley with Stephen Camelio
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Stephen Camelio to the scuttlebutt. Stephen is a…
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#253: Guerillas in the Mist with Robert Newman
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Robert Newman to the scuttlebutt. Robert is a…
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#252: World of Wargaming with Maj Alex Buck, Canadian Armed Forces
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring you another installment of World of Wargaming with…
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#251: Timothy Gick is Not A Very Good Teacher
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Timothy Gick to the scuttlebutt. Tim is the founder…
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#250: A Trip on the Way Back Machine – Some Highlights of 250 episodes of Scuttlebutt
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. As you probably have deduced from the episode title, this is Episode 250. We…
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#249: Interrogator, Author, Lawyer with MSgt Jonathan Hackett (Ret.)
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome Jonathan Hackett to the scuttlebutt. Jonathan is a…
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#248: Son, Father, Marine with Col Tim Mundy (Ret.)
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome the Vice President of the Marine Corps Association…
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#247: World of Wargaming review of Mission Match
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we bring you another installment of World of Wargaming with two…
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#246: The MCA’s TDG Competition with 1stSgt Chase McGrorty-Hunter
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome 1stSgt Chase McGrorty-Hunter back to the…
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#245: Doing the Baghdad Shuffle with LtCol Josh Bates (Ret.)
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome Josh Bates to the scuttlebutt. Josh is a retired Marine…
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#244: Literary Lethality with Kacy Tellessen
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring another installment of our new series, Literary…
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#243: The Siege at Khe Sanh with David Kniess and Dennis Mannion
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome David Kneiss and Dennis Mannion to the scuttlebutt…
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#242: Literary Lethality with Max Uriarte
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring another installment of our new series, Literary…
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#241: Semper Cinema – Tribes
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring you another installment of Semper Cinema with our…
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#240: Marine Corps Heritage Foundation with MajGen James Lukeman (Ret)
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we’re super excited to be welcoming retired MajGen James…
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#239: Modern Day Marine 2026
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we’re talking Modern Day Marine 2026, so we brought the MCA’s…
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#238: The Power of Narrative with August Cole
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome August Cole back to the scuttlebutt. August joined us…
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#237: Literary Lethality with Ian Brown
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring another installment of our new series, Literary…
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#236: Celebrating the Gazette’s 110th Anniversary
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us at the scuttlebutt. This week, the team comes together to form Voltron to recognize this month as the…
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#235: A Modern Veteran’s Iliad with Josh Cannon
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome Josh Cannon to the scuttlebutt. Josh is a veteran Marine…
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#234: Literary Lethality – Matterhorn with Michael Jerome Plunkett
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring another installment of our new series, Literary…
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#233: Observation Post – Iran Conflict
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Editor-in-Chief of Leatherneck and Gazette…
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#232: A Conversation with the Commandant and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This is an episode that we wanted to do when we first thought up the idea…
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#231: What If Anger is the Answer with Mike LeBlanc
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Mike LeBlanc to the scuttlebutt. Mike is a veteran…
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#230: Thoughts on the E-8 Redesignation Board Pilot Program with MGySgt Adam Walker (Ret)
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us at the scuttlebutt. This week, we welcome retired Master Gunnery Sergeant Adam Walker back to the show…
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#229: Semper Cinema – The Last 600 Meters
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and your continued support. This week, we bring you another installment of Semper Cinema in reviewing the…
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#228: Introduction to our Commandant’s Professional Reading List Series
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and for your continued support. In Dec of 2025, the Commandant’s office released Gen Smith’s update to the…
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#227: Bootleg Heroes and the Power of Literacy with Peter Cook
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and for your continued support. This week we welcome Peter Cook to the scuttlebutt. Peter is a former…
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#226: Impacts of Military Action in Venezuela with Ben Connable
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in. If you’re like me, the news cycle churns at a dizzying pace, and events come and go off the radar like…
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#225: US military action in Venezuela with Col Chris Woodbridge
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and your continued support. This week, we continue our discussion of Operation Absolute Resolve, the…
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#224: Strait Talk with Dr. Michael Hunzeker
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Welcome to 2026 and thank you for listening and your continued support. We hope you all had fun holidays and a safe New Year’s Eve…
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#223: History Flight Founder and Honorary Marine, Mark Noah
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us. We hope you are having a wonderful holiday season and pray that you will be safe as we enter into the new…
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#222: Zone Rouge with Michael Jerome Plunkett
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome Michael Jerome Plunkett to the show. Michael is a former…
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#221: Toys for Tots with Gunnar Spafford
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for hanging out with us. We’re excited to have Gunnar Spafford from Toys for Tots back on the show this week. Gunnar…
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#220: Marine Corps Censorship and Combat Correspondents with Douglas K. Daniel
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome Douglas K. Daniel to the show. Douglas is a journalist…
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#219: War Against the Cartels with Ben Connable
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and your continued support. This week, we welcome Ben Connable back to the show. Ben recently co-authored…
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#218: Happy 250th Birthday, Marines!
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and your continued support. This week, we want to start of by saying, Happy 250th Birthday, Marines! As our…
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#217: CUWOF with Brian O’Hare
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you joining us and your continued support. This week, we’re Catching Up with Old Friends and hanging out with Brian O’Hare…
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#216: Remembering Beirut bombings with Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continue support. This week, as we recognize the 42nd anniversary of the Beirut bombings, we…
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#215: Amphibious Tractor Memorial Updates
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and your continued support. This week, we are joined by Col John Atkinson and SgtMaj Justin LeHew to give…
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#214: Road to 250 – Operation Odyssey Dawn
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for listening and your continued support. This week, we bring you the penultimate episode of our Road to 250 segment…
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#213: Lessons from the Smoke Pit with Adam Walker
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome Adam Walker to the show. Adam is the creator of…
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#212: Jam Sesh with the President’s Own’ saxophonist, GySgt Connor Mikula
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and your continued support. This week, we welcome a saxophonist from the Marine Corps’ President’s Own…
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#211: Recognizing Suicide Prevention Awareness Month with Chaplain CDR David Duprey and Dr. Lelia Brady
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and for your continued support. This week, we welcome Chaplain CDR David Duprey and Dr. Lelia Brady to the…
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#210: Road to 250/Semper Cinema – Heartbreak Ridge
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for listening and your continued support. This week, we continue our Road to 250 segment, celebrating the Marine Corps’…
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#209: MDM 2025 – Toys for Tots
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in. This week is the conclusion of our audio-only Modern Day Marine 2025 series. As with the previous MDMs, we…
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#208: MDM 2025 – Homecoming 250 with George Leone
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for tuning in and for your continued support. This week, we continue with our audio-only Modern Day Marine 2025 series…
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#207: MDM 2025 – Matt Watkins and Operation Headshot
Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for listening and your continued support. This week, we continue with our audio-only Modern Day Marine 2025 series. As…