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First Place - "Flying the Colors One Last Time"
by 1LT Matthew L. Miller
Company A, 1st Battalion (Attack/Recon),
151st Aviation Regiment, Task Force Marauder,
Eastover, SC, 8 November 2011; Kirkuk, Iraq
CW2 George Protzman and CW2 Deborah Glenn from Company A, 1st Battalion (Attack/Recon), 151st Aviation Regiment fly the American flag one final time as the unit departs Camp Warrior, completing their withdrawal from Northern Iraq.
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Second Place – "Chinooks – This is What They Do"
by CW2 George P. Chino
Company A, 7th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Campbell, KY 17 December 2011; Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan
Sugar Bear 76, a CH-47 assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment flying back to Kandahar from the Uruzgan province after dropping off passengers on smaller contingency operating bases and picking up space-available soldiers on their way to rest and relaxation (RNR).
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Third Place – "Warriors of Compassion"
by COL Daniel W. Gower Jr., Retired
DUSTOFF Association, Sunrise Beach, TX 20 June 2011; Helmand Province, Afghanistan
SPC Dennis Cater, crew chief, consoles a young Afghani girl who had suffered burns from an unknown source with a small stuffed toy elephant; all of the aircraft in Company C (DUSTOFF), 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment carry several stuffed toys for the children that these Warriors of Compassion may treat. In the background, medic SGT Lange, watches over his patient.
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Fourth Place – "Crazy Blades"
by CW3 Lois E. Sharpe
Operational Support Airlift Command (OSACOM) Regional Flight Center, Fort Hood, TX 25 September 2011; Between Louisiana and Texas
Flying a C-12U back to Robert Gray Army Airfield from Louisiana at Flight Level 220; beautiful clouds with "crazy blades!"
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Honorable Mention – "Formation Flight"
by CW4 Jon D. Campbell
Maine Army National Guard, Hermon, ME 8 September 2011; Western Oregon near Mount Jefferson
A cross country trip from Oregon to Maine; in the background is Mount Jefferson, part of the Cascade Range located in Oregon.
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Honorable Mention – "Leaders of the Cav"
by LTC Christopher P. Downey
Task Force Six Shooters, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Drum, NY 2 July 2011; Jalalabad, Afghanistan
The Stetsons of four Task Force Six Shooters leaders rest on the nose of a Kiowa Warrior in Jalalabad before a combat mission in the Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar Provinces (N2K) region of Afghanistan.
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Honorable Mention – "International Zone Security"
by CW3 Charles L. Folk
Troop B, 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Wainwright, AK 24 July 2011; Baghdad, Iraq
Three OH-58D Kiowa Warriors flying in formation over the International Zone, downtown Baghdad, Iraq in the early morning haze.
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Honorable Mention – "Anticipation at the Break of Dawn"
by SPC Douglas B. Graham
Company D, 3rd Battalion (Attack/Recon), 159th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, Illesheim, Germany 13 October 2011; Grafenwöhr, Germany
AH-64D Apaches of the 3rd Battalion (Attack/Recon), 159th Aviation Regiment stand waiting for their pilots and crew chiefs on a cold October morning during a mission rehearsal exercise at the Joint Multi-national Training Center-Grafenwöhr, Germany.
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Honorable Mention – "DUST OFF"
by COL Daniel W. Gower Jr., Retired
DUSTOFF Association, Sunrise Beach, TX 24 June 2011; Helmand Province, Afghanistan
SFC Alonso Albright, platoon sergeant and air ambulance aid man, leads a litter team of U.S. Marines to the waiting UH-60 DUSTOFF aircraft.
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Honorable Mention – "Medic on a Hoist"
by SSG Mark D. Rickel
Company B, 2nd Battalion, 151st Aviation Regiment, Jacksonville, FL 20 May 2011; Port-au-Prince, Haiti
SSG Mark Rickel uses the rescue hoist on a Florida ARNG UH-72A Lakota helicopter to retrieve Texas medic, SPC DeLeon near Port-au-Prince, Haiti during Operation New Horizons. Both Soldiers were part of TF Bon Voizen in Haiti.
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Honorable Mention – "U.S. Army’s Family of Unmanned Aircraft Systems"
by William D. "Doug" McDaniel
PM UAS Rapid Integration and Acceptance Center, Huntsville, AL 9 January 2011; Dugway Proving Ground, Utah
The Army's Unmanned Aircraft Systems used at the Rapid Integration and Acceptance Center (RIAC) during the PM UAS Manned Unmanned Systems Integration Concepts (MUSIC) exercise.
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Honorable Mention – "Aviation Supporting Toy Drop 2011"
by SGT LTC Peter B. Tingstrom
U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, NC 14 December 2011; Luzon Drop Zone, Fort Bragg, NC
Paratrooper exiting a U.S. Army Special Operations Command Flight Detachment CASA 212 over Luzon DZ in support of Operation Toy Drop, a week-long, philanthropic project where Fort Bragg's paratroopers, and paratroopers from across the Nation, contribute new, unwrapped toys to be distributed to local children's homes and social service agencies.
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