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Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1996 Title: Girl By the Wire Category: Portrait/Personality Place: Honorable Mention Brief Description: A young girl stands behind the barbed wire and holds a strand with one hand. Exact Date Shot Unknown

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: SPC. Moses M. Mlasko Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1996 Title: Wait Category: Portrait/Personality Place: Third Place Brief Description: An old man smokes a cigarette as he waits beside a window. Exact Date Shot Unknown

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: A1C Benjamin M. Andera Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1996 Title: Window Lit Aircrew Candidates Category: Portrait/Personality Place: Honorable Mention Brief Description: Four crew members pose in front of the showers wearing their life vests. Exact Date Shot Unknown

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Daniel J. Quinajon Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1996 Title: What Mine Eyes Have Seen Category: Portrait/Personality Place: Honorable Mention Brief Description: A close-up of an old man with deep wrinkles and a sad expression. Exact Date Shot Unknown

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: A1C Benjamin M. Andera Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1997 Title: Solitude Category: Portrait/Personality Place: 3rd Place Portrait/Personality Exact Date Shot Unknown Caption: PHOTO taken after STAFF SGT. Art Jones won National Champion Lifter for the bench press with a lift of 529 lbs

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Tucson State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: MASTER SGT. Thomas Meneguin Release Status: Released t More

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1997 Title: Just Holly Category: Portrait/Personality Place: Honorable Mention Exact Date Shot Unknown Caption: Far away from her prior Army BDU's, Holly Gill, 26, now finds fashion in vintage clothing as part owner of Rose Vintage, her vintage clothing store in Ellicot City, Maryland

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Ellicot City State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SENIOR AIRMAN Diane S. Robinson Release Status: More

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1998 Title: Kabuki Man Category: Portrait/Personality Place: First Place PortfolioBright colors painted on the face of Yusuke Honda hint in no small way at the Kabuki background he enjoys. The character he portrays in the traditional form of Japanese theater is the Jackal - a mischievious, sneaky and sometimes evil personality. (The shot was made to illustrate the Far East for a themed Fifth Fleet issue of the All Hands magazine)

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Robert Benson Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1998 Title: Sandscript Category: Portrait/Personality Place: First Place Portrait/Third Place PortfolioSenior AIRMAN Craig London, a maintenance technician assigned to the 1ST Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., is seen after he completed several sets of pushups in the sand. Several members of the 1ST Combat Camera Squadron are participating in a rigorous fitness routine that will hopefully prepare them for possible acceptance to the U.S. Air Force Pre-Ranger course and then on to the U.S. Army's Ranger school at Fort Benning, Ga

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Tsgtjames D. Mossman Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1998 Title: World famous homeless man Category: Portrait/Personality Place: First Place PortfolioHis existence is tough, his goals none; but that's the way Sandy likes it. He spends his day outside the White House and sleeps under the stairs of the U.S. Capitol. Federal police turn a blind eye to the 82-year-old man, who was given permission to live under the stairs 17 years ago by former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil. Every year Sandy's family visits from Texas, and pleads for him to return to normal living, but he refuses to accept handouts from anyone, unless it is in the form of cash. Here, under the dismal heat, Sandy fights to stay awake...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1998 Title: World famous homeless man Category: Portrait/Personality Place: First Plac More

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1998 Title: "Cassie" Category: Portrait/Personality Place: Second Place Portfolio and the National Press Photographers Association Award. Cassie, a 2-year-old Labrador retriever, sits attentively among a cache of inert explosives at Lackland Air Force Base's explosive ordnance disposal shop. Cassie has a nose for trouble and is being trained by the Defense Department Military Working Dog School to become a bomb sniffer for the Federal Aviation Administration. I used Lumedyne portable studio lighting equipment for this environmental shot

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Val Gempis Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files