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The best of military photography A selection of photographs nominated for the Military Photographer of the Year 2011.
Feature: First place
Ken Swigart, 52, stares off into the Grand Canyon, the place where the Flagstaff, Ariz., Toys for Tots organization will deliver toys to the children of the Havasupai tribe. Swigart, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, and others join annually with U.S. Marines to deliver toys to the Native American tribe.
Sgt. A.J. Parson
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HMM-764
Feature: Second place
As the snow falls, U.S. Army Spec. David A. Brooks, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist from Virginia Beach, provides security for a recent convoy in eastern Afghanistan's Nangahar province. The convoy's trip from Jalalabad to Bagram Airfield took more than 12 hours.
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark Burrell
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Task Force Bastogne
Feature: Third place
A man enters a Christmas festival taking place in Parsberg, Germany.
Spec. Tristan Bolden
Feature: Honorable mention
Service members from the Iraq air force and U.S. Air Force security forces show off for one another on the top of a hardened aircraft shelter at Sather Air Base while doing a joint patrol in Baghdad.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Joshua L. DeMotts
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Stars and Stripes
Feature: Honorable mention
Sgt. Lucas Simmons, team leader attached to Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team, rides a bike given to him by a local child during a multi-day operation in the Alingar District of Afghanistan's Laghman province. The team, combined with assets from the 45th Infantry Brigade, conducted a search in a village thought to be home to bombmakers and Taliban fighters.
Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane
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U.S. Air Force
Feature: Honorable mention
Members of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, Sgt. 1st Class John Berentis of Yuma, Ariz., and Staff Sgt. Laura Dickmeyer of Abilene, Tex., assess the wind conditions before their pregame jump into FedEx Field in Landover for the Army vs. Navy game.
Clifford L.H. Davis
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U.S. Navy
Combat documentation: First place
Paratroopers from Bravo Company 2, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment put a wounded soldier on a litter for evacuation after a simulated attack on an Afghan village at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. The center is the final training stage for many Army units before deploying into their specific area of operations.
Staff Sgt. Ashley M Hyatt
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U.S. Army
Combat documentation: Second place
Staff Sgt. Angel Alvarez assigned to the Warrior Training Center at Fort Lee, Va., cocks back to throw a pyrotechnic grenade simulator into the sky during a night fire event for the 2011 Department of the Army Best Warrior Competition. During the event, competitors fired from the prone supported and prone unsupported firing positions while pyrotechnics exploded all around them.
Sgt. Sean Harp
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U.S. Army
Combat documentation: Third place
U.S. Marines with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment Regimental Combat Team 1, and Afghan National Army soldiers cross a makeshift bridge during Operation Godfather in Durzay, Afghanistan. The troops cleared the last remaining Taliban stronghold in the southern area of Garmser District.
Sgt. Christopher R. Rye
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2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment
Combat documentation: Honorable mention
Tech. Sgt. Milo Hinson, 3rd Combat Camera Squadron, uses a flashlight while shooting a Berretta 9mm during the night-fire portion of Advance Weapons, Tactics and Techniques training in San Antonio. During night-fire training, airmen learn how to tactically illuminate targets with flashlights and practice using night vision goggles.
Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder
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U.S. Air Force
Combat documentation: Honorable mention
A candidate from Officer Candidate School swims through icy waters during the Quigley to complete a combat course at Marine Corps Base Quantico. The Quigley involves going through obstacles in water, which includes a full immersion underwater.
Lance Cpl. Christina O'Neil
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U.S. Marines
News: First place
A father salutes the coffin of his son. Buckley Air Force Base honored Lance Cpl. Christopher Mies when he arrived home.
Senior Airman Marcy Glass
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460th Space Wing Public Affairs
News: Second place
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson firefighters battle a fire at Building 9386 on the base. All occupants of the lodging facility were accounted for, and no injuries were reported.
Staff Sgt. Zachary Wolf
News: Third place
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division say farewell to fallen comrades during a memorial service for six soldiers at Forward Operating Base Joyce in eastern Afghanistan's Konar province. Six troops were killed on the battlefield during combat operations.
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark Burrell
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Task Force Bastogne
News: Honorable mention
Newly commissioned Navy and Marine Corps officers toss their hats after the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2011 graduation and commissioning ceremony. The Class of 2011 graduated 728 ensigns and 260 Marine Corps 2nd lieutenants at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis.
Mass Communication Spec. 1st Class Chad Runge
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U.S. Naval Academy
Feature: Honorable Mention
"Daddy," screams a little girl as her smiling father approaches, still wearing his desert utilities during his homecoming from deployment with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362 at Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
Cpl. Tyler L. Main
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U.S. Marines
Pictoral: First place
An Army Ranger trainee gets "turtled" while rappelling and can't gain balance because of an 80-pound ruck during the mountain phase of Army Ranger School at Camp Frank D. Merrill, Ga.
Tech. Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III
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Defense Media Activity
Pictoral: Second place
Four fishermen walk back to shore along the shallow waters of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
Mark G. Logico
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Commander Navy Region Hawaii
Pictoral: Third place
An AC-130U Gunship from the 4th Special Operations Squadron flies a training mission on at Hurlburt Field, Fla. The AC-130U "Spooky" gunship is the primary weapon of Air Force Special Operations Command, whose primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance.
Air Force Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock
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1st Combat Camera Squadron Deployed
Pictoral: Honorable mention
On aerial view of an untouched hillside in the Iwate prefecture of Japan after the country's earthquake and tsunami disaster. Beauty stretches up the hill unfazed by the destruction below, where the coast has been devastated.
Tiffany M. Dusterhoft
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U.S. Forces Japan
Pictoral: Honorable mention
A view of Hong Kong's nightly skyline light show from aboard the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS Boxer while moored pierside. Boxer is in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations during a western Pacific deployment.
Trevor Welsh
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Commander, Amphibious Squadron ONE
Nov. 19, 2011
A paddleboarder navigates the Potomac River in Great Falls National Park near McLean.
Sgt. Sean K. Harp
Sept. 14, 2011
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Reagan Lodge of the Headquarters and Service Battalion at Marine Corps Base Quantico conducts water running exercises during a physical training session in Ramer Hall at the base's Basic School.
Sharon D. Kyle
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Headquarters and Service Battalion
March 17, 2011
Red team athletes Sean M. Mckinney and Maurice Honeywood show their game faces as they pull against the blue team during the annual Manpower, Personnel and Administration Directorate Field Meet at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
Tyler L. Main
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Headquarters Battalion Public Affairs Office
Sept. 18, 2011
A young girl cools off and swims in a stream that flows from under a broken street in Baucau, East Timor.
Air Force Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock
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DMA Deployed
Portrait/Personality: First place
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Keri Whitehead waits for a post-surgery exam at her plastic surgeon's office in Charleston, S.C. Whitehead had undergone the first of three reconstructive surgeries after a battle with breast cancer. In the first surgery, the doctors removed all of the breast tissue from Keri's left breast and then placed tissue expanders into both breasts to allow stretching of the skin for future placement of breast implants.
Air Force Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock
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DMA Deployed
Portrait/Personality: Second place
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Reynolds, Security Forces squad leader attached to Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul, fights racing water while holding onto a tow strap attached to an Afghan National Army vehicle stuck in the Lurah River in Afghanistan's Shinkai District. The Afghan army asked the reconstruction team for assistance because of the team's vehicle recovery capabilities and because of their working relationship after conducting frequent joint operations in the Shinkai District. Reynolds is deployed from Charlie Company, 182nd Infantry Regiment, Massachusetts National Guard.
Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-Contreras
Portrait/Personality: Third place
Don Jackson, 54, a Syracuse resident, starts to doze off after reading a book at Recess Coffee Shop in Syracuse. Jackson loves to hang out in the coffee shop all day on days he is not working.
Tech. Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez
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Syracuse University Military Photojournalism
Portrait/Personality: Honorable mention
A monk receives a new prescription for glasses during U.S. military medical outreach in Cambodia.
Tech. Sgt. Aaron D. Allmon II
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Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
Picture story: First place
Keri Whitehead, a 31-year-old active duty U.S. Air Force master sergeant and single mother, learned upon returning home from a deployment in Iraq in March 2010 that she had breast cancer. The final phase of her battle with the disease is three reconstructive surgeries. In the first surgery, the doctors removed all of the breast tissue from Keri's left breast and then placed tissue expanders into both breasts to allow stretching of the skin for future placement of breast implants.
Air Force Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock
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1st Combat Camera Squadron Deployed
Picture story: Second place
The Air Force Pararescue Indoctrination Course is a nine-week course that simulates ground and water survival scenarios. Pararescue training includes physiological training, obstacle courses, marches, dive physics, dive tables, metric manipulations, medical terminology, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, weapons qualifications, pararescue history and a leadership reaction course. Airmen must complete 80 weeks of training before receiving the title Air Force pararescueman.
Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.
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3rd Combat Camera Squadron
Picture story: Third place
The Joint Operation Access Exercise at Fort Bragg is a one-week exercise to prepare the Air Force and the Army to respond to worldwide crisis and contingencies.
Staff Sgt. Nicholas Pilch
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1st Combat Camera Squadron
Picture story: Honorable mention
Staff Sgt. Edward McCorkell, an Air Force tactical controller, takes on Army Ranger training to prepare himself for the joint deployed environment and to become a better leader. McCorkell successfully completed training and earned his Ranger tab.
Tech. Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III
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Defense Media Activity
Picture story: Honorable mention
Oren and Kamile long experience he joy of welcoming the newest member to their family at the Birth Place, Charleston S.C.. This is their first child and they are both experiencing the emotional roller-coaster of birth.
Staff Sgt. Angelita Marie Lawrence
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1st Combat Camera Squadron
Picture story: Honorable mention
U.S. Air Force Capt. Candice Adams was diagnosed with breast cancer on Oct. 25, 2010, at age 29. After overcoming the expected shock that accompanied her rare diagnosis, Adams took the fight to cancer in a 157-day battle, determined to celebrate life rather than simply survive the disease.
Staff Sgt. Russ Scalf
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Defense Media Activity
Picture story: Honorable mention
Individuals challenge themselves while participating in the Rescue Athlete program at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio on Oct. 15. The nonstop 36-hour training program was designed and delivered by Air Force special operators for both civilian and military participants. The program tests physical and psychological performance through battle-tested methods. Individuals participate in the Rescue Athlete program to prepare themselves for the rigors of the Air Force special operations nine-week indoctrination course.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder
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3rd Combat Camera Squadron
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