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The Photographers and Their Work
Lieutenant Commander Michael P. Helms, USNR, took this photograph while attached to Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6) as part of Operation Deep Freeze. A U.S. Navy UH-1N helicopter picks up an external cargo load here at a remote helicopter camp near the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. Frank B. Mormillo, photojournalist, shot this photograph of the USS Missouri (BB-63) firing 21 guns during a demonstration off the coast of California in spring 1990 after the Navy lifted its ban on firing battleship guns, a precautionary measure that resulted from the 1989 explosion on board the USS Iowa (BB- 61). When the Iowa investigation commenced in the fall, the Navy reinstated the ban. The Missouri's guns recently silenced Iraqi artillery batteries in Operation Desert Storm, the first time her guns were fired in anger since the Korean Conflict.
PHI Sheila Stone, USN, currently assigned to the White House video crew of the Naval Imaging Command, calls this photo “I don’t have to wish.” The subject was on active duty at Naval Security Group Activity, Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. The photo commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Women in the Navy.
Lieutenant David M. Ray, USNR, recently left active duty to enter the photography field, captured this image of an air traffic controller monitoring his console in the carrier air traffic control center on board the USS Independence (CV-62) operating in the Persian Gulf during WestPac 90.
Commander Joe Towers, USNR, a commercial airline pilot and freelance photographer, won both Third Prize and an Honorable Mention respectively with his entry on page 69, showing a U.S. Coast Guard HH-65A helicopter at daybreak ready for Bight, and his entry on page 77, a U.S. Coast Guard HU-25A Falcon jet Hying precariously over cliffs off the California coast. Commander Towers’s photographs have appeared in Proceedings. PH2(DV) Michael Poche, USN, was there for the relaunching of the former Exxon Valdez after a one-year overhaul at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego. ' Renamed Exxon Mediterranean, the ship is currently operating in the Mediterranean Sea. Randy Duran is a civilian working at Naval Air Station, Fallon, Nevada. He took this photograph of a menacing F-I4A Tomcat being precisely positioned by a plane captain for refueling at the hot pits.
PH3 Ken Zaenger, USN, and two other sailors of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW-121) wonder whether this sailor is stuck in the intake of an E-2C Hawkeye on board the USS Eisenhower (CVN-69).
AD-3 Daniel Bayer, USNR, caught this F/A- 18 Hornet turning on board the USS Midway (CV-41), with a Soviet Krivak-class destroyer lurking to port.
Howard Lipin, a photographer for The San Diego Union-Tribune, titled this photograph “Centennial Warrior." It depicts General John Groff, USMC (Ret.), saluting the Recruit Training Regiment Bag at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. He passed away a few months after being honored on his 100th birthday here.
Peter J. Bentivegna awoke before the crack of dawn to capture this shot of the first submarine, USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN 633), to enter the new Trident 11 enclosed dry dock facility at Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay, Georgia, in July 1990. This photo was taken in natural light without the benefit of a filter.
PHl(AC) Scott M. Allen, USN calls this photo “Manning the Line.” The sailors on board the nuclear attack submarine USS Skipjack (SSN-585) were transiting the Panama Canal at the time.
Leo Van Ginderen, a frequent contributor to Proceedings from Belgium, took this photograph of sailors on board the Argentinian Sail Training Ship Libertad while she was visiting Zeebrugge, Belgium.
Daniel P. Glass, an amateur photographer, managed an excellent vantage point to shoot this photograph of a pilot and co-pilot conducting a prellight check of an SH-3 helicopter on board the USS Eisenhower (CVN-69). Raymond Muzika took this timely and telling photograph of loved ones awaiting the safe return of sailors from the Persian Gulf.
Rich Pedroncelli, a professional photographer, titles this photograph “The Old Fashioned Way,” noting that despite being in the world’s most modem Navy, U.S. sailors must still do some jobs as they were done in the old days. Three crew members on board the USS Missouri (BB-63) straggle to move a 16-inch shell within the ship’s magazine.
Lieutenant C. A. Buhlmann, USN shot the cover photo of an EA-6B Prowler and the A-6E Intruder aircraft during carrier qualifications on board the USS Independence (CV- 62).
Start Clicking those shutters now for the 30th Annual Naval and Maritime Photo Contest. Winning black and white or color photos will be published in a 1992 issue of Proceedings. Write to the 30th Annual Naval and Maritime Photo Contest, U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD 21402 for further details.