First Place
The Eagle and the Alidade
LCDR Ian Starr, USCG
A bald eagle catches its breath on the bridge wing of the USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) during operations off the Aleutian Islands on 19 March 2020. The Alex Haley routinely conducts law enforcement operations and provides search-and-rescue coverage throughout the Bering Sea.
Second Place
Night in the Ice
LCDR Samuel Blase, USCG
The USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) in the Arctic Ocean, 2019.
Third Place
Still Lighting the Way
Steve Footer
Whitehead Light on Whitehead Island in the town of St. George, Maine.
Honorable Mentions
Launch the Cavalry
Maj Logan Davis, USMC
A flightline Marine monitors flight launch operations at 29 Palms as part of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, 2011.
Early Morning Preflight
Maj Logan Davis, USMC
A Marine walks to the flight line at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, in the early morning hours to preflight a CH-53 Super Stallion, 2014.
Receiving
LT Gregory Oh, USN
Taken over the Gulf of Oman after two lieutenants of Electronic Attack Squadron 139 are promoted to lieutenant commander by their commanding officer.
Winston S. Churchill
MC3 Louis Staats IV, USN
The guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81), middle, executes a passing exercise with the Turkish Navy frigates Barbaros and Burgazada in the Mediterranean Sea, 26 August.
Tanker for Two
LT Elliot Hall, USN
Two F/A-18E Super Hornets assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 14 refuel simultaneously off an Omega tanker, 4 May 2018.
Colors
Mark W. Anderson
1st Marine Logistics Group change of command, February 2020.
Steaming into the Sunset
LT Peter Driscoll, USCG
The USCGC Oliver F. Berry (WPC-1124), underway in the Pacific Ocean, 24 March 2019.
Red Sea Sunset
Maj Logan Davis, USMC
Three Marines take a moment to experience a calming end to the day on board the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) in the Red Sea, 2013.
Sloops on the Inner Harbor
Grant Hoel
Two sloops moored in Boston’s inner harbor, 18 September 2020.
Into the Wind
CAPT Susan Bibeau USCG (Ret.)
Mayflower II, Fishers Island Sound, 27 July 2020.
Oliver Berry
LT Peter Driscoll, USCG
The USCGC Oliver Berry (WPC-1124) moors for a brief port call at U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll on 1 July 2018, while forward deployed to the Republic of the Marshall Islands in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
Single Ship
LT Gregory Oh, USN
Thumbs Up, Shipmate!
CAPT David Forman, USN
Taken on the USS Alaska (SSBN-732) (BLUE) Patrol 100 during a training exercise, the Coast Guard Air Station Savannah “Lowcountry Lifesavers” return a sailor to Submarine Base, Kings Bay.
