Welcome Home for Strike Fighter Squadron 81
May 23rd, 2012 | Photography The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Deputy Wing Commander Captain Jeffrey Winter, center, is mobbed by two of his children, Julia, 11, and Jackson, 13, behind him, upon the return of Strike Fighter Squadron 81 to Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The F/A -18E Super Hornet squadron returned Wednesday after a six-month deployment in the Middle East with the USS Carl Vinson, a West Coast-based aircraft carrier. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Vicki Cronis-Nohe)
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.
Big Kim Jong Un and His Little Soldiers
April 27th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
North Korea’s new commander in chief, Kim Jong Un is displayed on a giant screen during a concert on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Cadets Attempt Jump Record
April 6th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Cadets with the Wings of Blue Parachute Demonstration Team form up while attempting to break the largest formation collegiate record with a 46-person formation above Gila Bend, Ariz. The formation involved nine sophomores, 22 juniors and 15 seniors. One of the team members was 25-year-old Cadet 1st Class Shawn Johnson, who was making his 901st jump. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force Academy)
Wounded Warriors Play at Nats Park
April 4th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 03: Greg Reynolds, who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq, runs in to the bench between innings during the Wounded Warrior Amputee Celebrity Softball Classic at Nationals Park April 3, 2012 in Washington, DC. With a team comprised of veterans and active duty service members from across the United States who lost limbs while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, members of the Washington Nationals Wounded Warrior softball team travel the country competing against able-bodied opponents. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Where’s Waldo?
March 31st, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Group photos can be one of the toughest shots for a photographer to make. Sometimes, you just don’t see that “one” guy in the crowd that’s messing with you. Marines sit inside of a plane before their departure to Afghanistan from the US transit center Manas, 30 km outside the Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, on March 27, 2012. (VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images)
Obama at the DMZ
March 29th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama visited Observation Post Ouellette during a trip to the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) near Panmunjom on the border between North and South Korea. While at the DMZ, the President stood behind a thick wall of bullet-proof glass and was able to look across the most heavily militarized border in the world. Obama arrived in Seoul earlier in the day to attend the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit to be held on March 26-27. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
Forget The Nukes, Iran Has Ninjas!
March 16th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Iranian female Ninjutsu athletes practice in their sports club in Karaj, 21 miles (35 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 15, 2012. About 10,000 athletes train in Ninjutsu in Iran, while 3,500 of them are women. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
India-U.S. Army Exercise
March 14th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Indian and US soldiers rappel from an Indian Air Force helicopter as they participate in the Yudh Abhyas 2012 military exercise at Mahajan on March 13, 2012. The five-day India-US army exercise was aimed at improving bilateral defense and diplomatic relations between the two countries. (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)
Dad’s Home
March 14th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Army Sgt. Shane Ely embraces his daughter, Shelby, at Rose Drive Elementary after being stationed in Afghanistan, on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, in Yorba Linda, Calif. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Jebb Harris)