Marine combat correspondent
She began her career here at Camp Pendleton in 1995, reporting the Corps from inside it.
Pendleton.
She wrote
the book on
this base.
This is not a guided tour.
Forty-five minutes at Iron Mike’s, and the room goes quiet.
Most people give you dates. She gives you the people the dates happened to.
Thirty years in uniform
Across the Marine Corps and the Navy, and she still serves as a public affairs officer in the Navy Reserve.
Five combat tours
Iraq and Afghanistan. She was there for the origins of the Female Engagement Teams and wrote about it first-hand.
Award-winning author
Heroes Live Here: A Tribute to Camp Pendleton Marines Since 9/11. Every guest leaves with a signed copy.
San Diego County
She has lived beside this base since 1995. The history she tells is local to her, not researched for the occasion.
Broadcast and print
Thirty years of telling military stories to civilian audiences, which is exactly what she does in the room.
- 30 yrs
- Across the Marine Corps and the Navy, and still serving in the Reserve.
- 5 tours
- Iraq and Afghanistan, reporting from inside the units she wrote about.
- 45 min
- The history of the base at Iron Mike’s, over breakfast or lite bites.
- 1 book
- A signed copy of Heroes Live Here for every guest on the day.
Why the
history lands.
The stories she tells happened on the ground your team is standing on. The Code Talkers trained here. Fifty thousand refugees arrived here. Women Marines trained here when the Corps had no idea what to do with them.
She is not reciting a plaque. She reported the Corps for thirty years and wrote the book about this base.
What your
team leaves
with.
- 1A signed copy of Heroes Live Here, each.
- 2The story of a code built from a language that existed nowhere in writing.
- 3What nine hundred people managed to build in six days in 1975.
- 4A sense of the ground itself, and why it stayed empty while the coast filled in.
- 5Something to tell people afterwards that isn’t about the catering.
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conversation.
Fifteen minutes. We will ask what you want the day to do and tell you honestly whether it fits.
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