MCA Scuttlebutt

Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we welcome retired Master Sergeant Adam Walker back to the scuttlebutt. Adam is a friend of the show and has appeared in episodes 213 and 230. Please go check those out. But this week, rather than Adam doing our bidding, he’s come on to talk to us about his book, Laughing and Crying as a U.S. Marine. Laughing and Crying is a memoir, but it breaks the paradigm. Normally, in a memoir, especially a milit

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 review of Beach Red. Beach Red is a film adaptation of Peter Bowman’s novella by the same name, made in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, and depicts Marines landing on an unnamed island during WWII. Written, directed, produced, and starring Cornell Wilde, it’s known for its gritty depictions of combat (at least for its time), and it was

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 Marine captain, renowned journalist, and author of the book Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy. Fuji Fire details the complex series of natural and man-made circumstances that led to the 1979 Camp Fuji fire. Having served at Camp Fuji a mere eighteen months before the tragedy, Chas knew and served with survivors

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 the Marine Corps, SgtMaj Carlos Ruiz, and the Manpower and Reserve Affairs senior enlisted advisor, SgtMaj Jacob Reiff during the Modern Day Marine Expo this year. This interview was originally released on our YouTube channel, but the conversation continues to be so relevant and the topics of leadership are so insightful, we decided to get

Hey, Scuttlebutt listeners. Thank you for joining us and for your continued support. This week, we bring another installment of our Literary Lethality series to the scuttlebutt. In this series, we dive deep into the Commandant’s Professional Reading List, exploring various titles and talking with authors about some of the books on the list. Today, we welcome Mac Caltrider back to the show. Mac talks to us about Orson Scott Card’s groundbreaking sci-fi novel, Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game is one of

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 artillery officer, former collegiate athlete, and winner of not one, not two, but three Marine Corps Marathons in 2022, 2024, and 2025. His first run through the tape made him the first active-duty Marine to win the men’s division in 39 years. Along with these accomplishments, Kyle was named the Marine Corps 2025 Male Athlete of the Year. Kyle is