Michael "Mac"
McNamara, USMC(Ret)
Michael "Mac" McNamara, USMC(Ret)
President of All Marine Radio
Michael McNamara was born and raised in Sacramento, California. Catholic educated from kindergarten to college, received a BA in Economics from the University of San Diego in 1981. Worked for Merrill Lynch Inc in Los Angeles as a bookkeeper and later as a broker. Enlisted in the US Marine Corps and was commissioned a 2ndLt in December of 1983. After assignments to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion, Marine Detachment USS Ranger CV-61, The Basic School and 3rd Light Armored Infantry Battalion he left active duty in 1994.
Mac moved Grand Forks, ND in 1998 to become the Director of Sports for Special Olympics North Dakota. In the year 2000 he began his broadcasting career as the host of a talk-show entitled “MacTalk,” which he hosted until 2010. He was the recipient of the National Association of Broadcasters prestigious Marconi Award in 2007 as the nation’s “Small Market Personality of the Year.”
Mac returned to active duty in 2004, was promoted to the rank of Major and deployed to city of Ramadi, Iraq with the 1st Marine Division Headquarters Element in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II. He returned to the United States in December of 2004 and was demobilized in February 2005. Mobilized again in January of 2006 for duty with the 5th Marine Regiment in the city of Fallujah, Iraq; returning to the US in October of 2006 and demobilizing. While in Iraq Mac was elected to the City Council of the city of Grand Forks, ND defeating four other candidates. In June of 2010 after completing his four-year term on the Grand Forks City Council, Mac was mobilized in support of Operation Enduring Freedom for duty with the 1st Marine Regiment and deployed to the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Mac remained on active duty with I MEF at Camp Pendleton until he retired from the Marine Corps in October of 2015.
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