Branch of Service: United States Marine Corps.
Role in the service: 7 years as a 4641—Combat Photographer/Communications Strategy and Operations. I traveled to Bahrain, Cyprus, Israel, Puerto Rico, the Suez Canal, and to the Red Sea, the Virgin Islands, Spain, Jordan, Djibouti, and other places within the U.S.
Program & Graduation Year: Communications Design B.A. 2027
This is an all-weather notebook to document relevant notes and information necessary for a successful photography assignment. Among videography, writing, and graphic design, my primary duty was to travel within various military units to photograph small or large-scale training events, ceremonies, combat, or other requests. I was embedded with conducting a simulated search mission in Haifa, Israel, on March 14, 2018. While the main body of Marines I deployed with were training for a different mission, the ones I was assigned to were specially trained in Tactical Recovery of Aircraft Personnel (TRAP). This is from my most active years between 2016 to 2018.
It holds many memories associated with the work that goes into combat photography. Before the assignment, you might need to notate any special assignment requests; during the assignment, you'll need the information on the subjects photographed. Afterward, you'll need anything that might be useful later. This is one of three notebooks I used throughout my career. The notebook is especially noteworthy—pun intended— because it's designed to withstand the elements that may dampen the pages. It typically comes with an all-weather pen with which to write. There might be some doodles (my job involved a lot of waiting, unfortunately) or vivid, humorous descriptions to remember who I took a photo of. For example: "Bald man who sounds like Elmer Fudd."