2006 Field Artillery Photo Contest.The staff at Field Artillery magazine would like to congratulate all who entered the 2006 Field Artillery Photo Contest. All photographs entered in the contest were excellent examples of the photographers' skills and talents. We received many entries from across the services--Active and Reserve Components. The top 10 entries appearing in this magazine are also available for viewing and downloading under "2006 Photo Contest Gallery" on our Web site at http://sill-www.army.mil/famag/index.asp. Photos entered into the contest may be used in upcoming editions of the magazine. Full credit will be given to the photographers. 1st Place Actual Combat or Stability Operations SGT Benjamin Taylor, Gunner, B Battery, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment (B/1-320 FAR), 2nd Brigade Combat Team The brigade combat team (BCT) is the basic deployable unit of maneuver in the US Army. A brigade combat team consists of one combat arms branched maneuver brigade, and its attached support and fire units. (BCT), 101st Airborne Division, fires one of eight rounds during a registration and area denial mission 16 May 2006 at Forward Operating Base An airfield used to support tactical operations without establishing full support facilities. The base may be used for an extended time period. Support by a main operating base will be required to provide backup support for a forward operating base. Also called FOB. (FOB) Mahmahdiyah, Iraq. Photo by SPC Kelly K. McDowell, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 2nd BCT, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1st Place Training for Combat or Stability Operations Soldiers from C/4-27 FA clean their M109A6 Paladin howitzer tube in the motor pool at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. From Left to Right: SPC Jason Marshall, SSG Zachary Parrish, SGT Aaron Smith and SPC Benjamin Luker. SGT Smith was killed on 14 September 2006 by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device Noun 1. improvised explosive device - an explosive device that is improvised I.E.D., IED explosive device - device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy (SVBIED) in Baghdad. Photo by CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To James V. Collado, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB), 4/27 FA, MultiNational Division-Baghdad (MND-B), Camp Liberty, Iraq. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2nd Place Actual Combat or Stability Operations Soldiers of F/7 FA, 25th Infantry Division, fire from FOB Salerno, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) IV. Photo by MSG MSG: see glutamic acid. Anthony D. Cortez, United States Army Sergeants Major Academy The United States Army Sergeants Major Academy (USASMA) was established on July 1, 1972 at Fort Bliss, Texas, and began instruction in January 1973. Its curriculum is designed to broaden the student's current knowledge base. , Fort Bliss, Texas (formerly the 1SG of F/7 FA). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2nd Place Training for Combat or Stability Operations A Soldier with B/3-16 FA, 4th Infantry Division, performs weekly maintenance on an M109A6 Paladin howitzer at Camp Duke, Iraq, 14 April 2006. US Navy Photo by Mass Communications Specialist Mass Communications Specialist (abbreviated as MC) is a United States Navy occupational rating. Mass Communications Specialists are Public Affairs and Visual Information experts. Petty Officer Second Class (MC2) Katrina Lynn Jones. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3rd Place Actual Combat or Stability Operations 1LT Graham Genrich, B/3-320 FA, 101st Airborne Division, secures the perimeter during a patrol in Osha City, Tikrit, Iraq, 27 April 2006. Photo by SPC Teddy Wade, 55th Combat Camera (COMCAM), Fort Meade, Maryland Fort Meade is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 9,882 at the 2000 census. It is the home to the National Security Agency in the US Army base of the same name. . 3rd Place Training for Combat or Stability Operations [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] C/4-11 FA, 1st Stryker BCT, 25th Infantry Division, calibrates fires at FOB Courage, Mosul, Iraq, on 6 March 2006. Photo by SGT Dennis Gravelle, 138th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, or MPAD, is a type of unit found in the United States Army. Background A Mobile Public Affairs Detachment is a modular, task organizable unit that normally augments a corps public affairs section or a Public Affairs Operations (MPAD), Mosul, Iraq. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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