Celebrate with Us: MCU Journal Author Wins Heinl Award

The editorial staff at the Marine Corps University Press (MCUP) is pleased to announce that Dr. David J. Ulbrich has won the 2016 Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr. Award given by the Marine Corps University Foundation. Ulbrich received his award for the article titled, “The U.S. Marine Corps, Amphibious Capabilities, and Preparations for War with Japan” published in the Spring 2015 edition of the Marine Corps University Journal.

Ulbrich is an assistant professor at Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma, and has researched and written extensively on the Marine Corps. His book, Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern US. Marine Corps, 1936–1943 (2011), won the 2012 General Wallace M. Greene Book Award. He is also an active member of the Society of Military History, and the editorial staff appreciates his contribution about the Corps to the larger field of military history. In this particular article, the author examined the Corps’ doctrine and planning prior to World War II in order to better understand its participation in that war as well as future wars.

According to the Marine Corps University Foundation, it offers a $1,000 cash prize for a “distinguished example of feature writing by an individual dealing with U.S. Marine Corps history or Marine Corps life, giving prime consideration for high literary quality and originality” as a part of the Heinl Award. The award won by Ulbrich was named for Colonel Heinl, a distinguished journalist and historian of the USMC and founder of the group then known as the Marine Corps History Foundation. The foundation offers numerous, competitive awards for other categories of work.

The journal featuring Ulbrich’s article is a publication of the MCUP and is in its seventh year of publication. Starting with its Spring 2016 issue (vol. 7, no. 1), the press will unveil the redesigned MCU Journal while continuing to publish content written by civilian and military authors that is relevant to readers interested in issues that have direct or indirect import for the Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, and the USMC. If you are interested in contributing to the journal, or to the Marine Corps History magazine, please contact the editorial staff at the press.

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You may read a full version of Ulbrich’s article at http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/mcu_press/Pages/JournalCat.aspx or you may request a hardcopy of the journal by emailing the press.