Air Force Sniper
May 22nd, 2012 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alyssa Gomez, 99th Ground Combat Training Squadron, peers down the scope of her M24 Sniper Weapon System May 11, 2012, at the Nevada Test and Training Range. Gomez graduated a 19-day sniper course at Fort Bliss, TX. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Hughes)
US Naval Academy Sea Trials
May 21st, 2012 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (May 15, 2012) A first-year midshipman, or plebe, is splashed with mud while participating in the annual Sea Trials at the U.S. Naval Academy. Sea Trials is modeled after the Marine Corps Crucible and the Navy’s Battle Stations recruit programs. It is a capstone event for the fourth class midshipmen and serves as a leadership challenge for the upper class midshipmen who lead each event during the exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad Runge/Released)
KC-10 Extender
May 14th, 2012 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
A KC-10 Extender refuels another KC-10 during a training mission over the Atlantic Ocean on May 3, 2012. The two aircraft were conducting aerial refueling operations to maintain proficiency for worldwide duties. Both aircraft are from the 305th Air Mobility Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. (Tech. Sgt. Edward Gyokeres/Air Force)
Mud Run
May 14th, 2012 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
FORT CARSON, Colo. — Col. John Keenan, deputy garrison commander, trudges through waist-deep mud during the Military Sprint Spartan Race on May, 6, 2012. (Wayne Barnett/Fort Carson)
Prize-Winning AP Photographer Horst Faas Has Died
May 11th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
In this March 1965 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.
From the AP: Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday May 10, 2012. He was 79. Faas won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes for covering the war in Vietnam. In nearly half a century with the AP, he became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists. As chief of AP’s photo operations in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Faas covered the fighting while recruiting and training new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was “Horst’s army” of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film, and stern orders to “come back with good pictures.”
In this undated file photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas is shown on assignment with soldiers in South Vietnam.
Matching Moustaches
May 9th, 2012 | From the Ranks | Posted by Mike Morones
BANGOR, Wash. (May 6, 2012) Electrician’s Mate 1st Class Matthew Stonehocker, assigned to the Blue Crew of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana (SSBN 743), reunites with his wife and son at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor after Louisiana’s return from a strategic deterrent patrol. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ed Early)
High-Flying Salute
May 9th, 2012 | From the Ranks | Posted by Mike Morones
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (May 4, 2012) Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 1st Class Thomas Kinn, assigned to the U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, salutes as he steps off the ramp of a C-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to the 139th Airlift Wing of Missouri Air National Guard during the Sound of Speed Air Show rehearsal at Rosecrans Memorial Airport. The Leap Frogs are based in San Diego and perform aerial parachute demonstrations in support of Naval Special Warfare and Navy recruiting. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michelle Turner)
Fast Rope
May 8th, 2012 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
A Marine assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit fast ropes from the back of a helicopter onto the aircraft elevator of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8). Makin Island with embarked Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are deployed in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Daniel J. Walls)
Hover Spray
May 7th, 2012 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Navy hovercraft with Assault Craft Unit 5 depart USS Makin Island carrying 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit vehicles and personnel here May 1. The units are deployed as part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, currently a U.S. Central Command theater reserve force. The group is providing support for maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (Lance Cpl. Claudia Palacios/USMC)
Friendly Visit
May 6th, 2012 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Sgt. Joshua Smith, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, chats with an Afghan boy during an Afghan-led clearing operation April 28, 2012, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. The soldier studied the Pashtun language prior to his deployment to southern Ghazni. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)