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“A panel of judges in Fort Meade, Maryland have made their
selections for the 2014 Military
Photographer awards.
“The judges have handed out awards to military photographers
for their amazing work in ten different categories including Sports, Pictorial,
and Combat Documentation (Operational). The judges have also named the overall
best military photographer for 2014…”
This is an awesome set of photographs…
In
photograph # 17, “A US Marine assigned to Echo Company 4th Reconnaissance
Battalion rappels out of a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter at Camp Upshur, Marine...”
Take a good look at this photograph. I trained, in part, at
Camp Upshur in the summer of 1972. If you will notice how graceful the Marine
jumps out of the helicopter. This Marine makes it look so easy – so polished –
so graceful. A ballet in the air with a helicopter. It is beautiful. That, my
friends, is not how I did it.
In the real world, the helicopter is so loud. The air rushes
about so violently. If my memory serves me, in my case the helicopter was a Boeing
CH-47 Chinook and-or a CH-46E Sea Knight – see
picture #16...
At night it was easy to lose track of what was up and what
was down - and just where is the ground anyway? You pray you find the landing
zone before it finds you – with a very hard thud. I usually flailed-out of the
aircraft and fell on my head. Over and over again.
Go here for all the pictures…. I also did number
7: I have no idea why I did not drown. I
remember #6… I still do not like wind to this day.
Picture
#10 is pretty powerful. And see if you can look at
picture #14 and not get a tear in your eye.
Photograph
#21 made me think of my grandfather, William Earl Wright, who served as a farrier
in the cavalry during World War 1. (My dad served in the Navy during World War
II – in the Pacific Theater …)
All of the pictures are great. Please enjoy…
The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor – Semper Fidelis.
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