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First Place - “Waiting for the Wounded”
by CPT Eric Megerdoomian
Eagle Team, Operations Group, National Training Center,
30 September 2010; Fort Irwin, CA
Pathfinders from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) move their injured to a casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) UH-60 after taking casualties while clearing a cave complex at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA
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Second Place – “Flying Into Kamdesh Valley”
by LTC Thomas von Eschenbach
3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment (TF Lighthorse), 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, Savannah, GA - 14 April 2010; Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman Provinces (N2KL) region of Regional Command-East, Afghanistan
A TF Lighthorse Scout Weapons Team conducts a photo recon of the abandoned outposts of Keating and Fristche that were overrun by Taliban forces in the fall of 2009.
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Third Place – “TF Hammerhead Air Assault”
by SFC Tyrone C. Marshall, Jr.
25th Combat Aviation Brigade, Public Affairs Office, Wheeler Army Airfield, HI - 23 April 2010; Salah ad Din Province, Northern Iraq
CH47-D Chinooks from Company B, 3rd Battalion, Task Force Hammerhead, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, insert a tripartite force of U.S. Soldiers, Iraqi police and Army Soldiers during an air assault in northern Iraq, April 23, 2010.
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Fourth Place – “Overlooking Big Sister”
by SPC Jeremy A. Ganz
Company B, 2nd Battalion, Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, KS - 24 April 2010; Baghdad, Iraq
Flying in formation for a photo op on the way to Baghdad.
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Honorable Mention – “Sling Load”
by CPT Joshua R. Bell
Troop A, 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY - 30 August 2010; Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
CH-47 conducts a resupply mission of an observation post in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Honorable Mention – “2ID CSM firing a 50 cal on MPRC”
by Cadet Oswald N. Essel
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, Republic of Korea - 26 May 2010; Multi-Purpose Range Complex, Republic of Korea
CSM Burrowes, 2 Infantry Division CSM, fires a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a Chinook during a U.S.-Republic of Korea Army combined exercise.
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Honorable Mention – “Air Volcano Flies by Seoul (Korea) Enroute to K-16”
by LTC Erik Gilbert
2nd Battalion (Assault), 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea - 24 September 2010; Seoul, Korea
A UH-60 mounted with Air Volcano system and half of a full load of inert training mines flies over the Han River and the city of Seoul, South Korea on the way back home to K-16.
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Honorable Mention – “Mt. Shasta Rescue”
by SGT Jonathan C. Guibord
Company C., 168th General Support Aviation Battalion, California Army National Guard, Mather, CA - 1 April 2010; Mount Shasta, CA
A CH-47 Chinook and crew from Company B, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment out of Stockton, California, near the 14,179 ft. summit of Mt. Shasta as rescue crews retrieve the body of one of two missing hikers from a violent snow storm; the other hiker managed to hike to safety under his own power.
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Honorable Mention – “Predawn Preflight”
by CW2 Daniel J. Layman
Company B, 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, Killeen, TX - 5 March 2010; Camp Taji, Iraq
A maintenance light set on the adjacent pad provided a unique perspective on an Apache attack helicopter prior to a pre-dawn mission.
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Honorable Mention – “DUSTOFF Crew on the Hoist”
by Mr. Terence W. Moore
Retired Australian Army, Houston, TX - 30 April 2010; German Provincial Reconstruction Team, Konduz, Afghanistan
5th Battalion, 158 Aviation Regiment Dustoff Crew, SSG Travis Brown on the hoist and SPC Matthew Baker, crew chief are recent German Gold Cross recipients for bravery during combat operations on April 2, 2010 in Konduz, Afghanistan.
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Honorable Mention – “Constant Hawk”
by CW3 Timmy D. Pisone
Task Force ODIN, Fayetteville, NC - 9 April 2010; Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq
A Constant Hawk aircraft gets inspected prior to the next day’s mission. Constant Hawk is a critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system.
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Honorable Mention – “Rock Storm on the PZ”
by SGT Scott J. Tant
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Brawler, Savannah, GA - 11 July 2010; Outside the village of Shulock, Afghanistan
The advantage of being a ground unit organic to an aviation unit: you can get to remote locations quickly and safely. The disadvantage: pickup zones with thousands of pinball sized rocks.
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