The Gravel Cruncher originated in 1972 by Bill Moss the founding commandant of The Greater Greensboro Detachment 260 now known as "The Fighting 260". As Bill and a few of his new Marine members were trying to decide what to call the Detachments News Letter they where walking down a gravel road wearing their old "boon dockers" from the Corps, Bill said "Hey Listen" and the only sound was the gravel crunching under their feet, thus the news letter became the Gravel Cruncher.

The Gravel Cruncher has won numerous awards thru the years including the MCL National First Place Newsletter Award for battalion size detachments. The Cruncher once a news letter later became a magazine and now here we are in the 21st century as a syndicated news blog.

The staff of the Gravel Cruncher are now extending their expertise to develop better communications and news reporting for the State of North Carolina and other Marine groups that the League supports.