General Info

Operation: A Marine?s Guide, a cross-country speaking tour by the film?s lead actor Matthew Pennington. Each Operation: A Marine?s Guide event features a screening of the short 15-minute film. “A Marine’s Guide to Fishing,” tells the story of a military service member who returns to his former job in a New England dockyard on the one-year anniversary of having lost his leg in a combat explosion. Written and directed by Maine native Nicholas Brennan, the film stars 27-year-old Pittsfield, Maine resident Matthew Pennington, who served three tours of duty with the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan before suffering an injury in 2006 very similar to the one endured by the character he plays.