The USMC Historical Company is a not-for-profit educational corporation structured and operated as a professional agency established to support the United States Marine Corps, and Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. Our major tasks are two fold:

First is to develop and provide outreach and traveling historical educational programing focused on telling the Marine Corps Story.

Second is provide consultation, logistical, and material support to other agencies in providing Marine Corps historical programing.

Our principle objective is to educate the public, and our fellow Marines in the history of the Corps, and function as a high profile public relations tool for the U.S. Marine Corps and Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. In so doing, we continually strive to objectively present the contributions of past Marines, highlight the relevance and impact of their actions on today's society, and enlighten and motivate this and future generations to the importance of the Marine Corps and its mission.

However, the means with which we accomplish this mission is considerably varied and involved. The USMCHC goes far beyond the presentation of statistics or displays of ‘artifacts.’ Task with the responsibility of development and presentation of historical outreach programming worthy of the Marine Corps we endeavor to highlight the most important component of the Corps - its people. Employing a wide variety of tools and approaches such as lectures, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, ceremonies, and living history interpretive techniques to tell the story of the Corps and its people. We serve a wide diversity of both civilian and military audiences. Our members and staff actively interface with the public, teaching the relevance of history and the importance of it’s preservation. Most importantly, we endeavor to allow the public to get to know those Marines of the past on a personal level in ways that they can relate to. We strive to help the public better understand that, although the Corps has its own unique culture, these men and women who wore the Marine uniform have always come from throughout American society, and were/are, in reality, the same as people today, coming from all walks of life, with the same hopes, fears, and aspirations that make up each of us. We strive to show that what made these people extraordinary was earning the title “United States Marine”, and what they accomplished has had a direct effect on how we all live today.

MCHC Public Affairs Office: (301) 662-3141 | E-mail the Director or the Administrative Chief.