Co.1 Platoon 3 Stream Crossing

A few other interns and I went out to stream crossing to find Company 1 Platoon 3 and cover Cadet Victor McCullough for a cadet profile. McCullough, below, is a champion MMA fighter, as well as a husband and father.

McCullough crosses the stream via the two-rope bridge.

McCullough’s squad members cheer on his squad as they compete against the other squads in a competition to see who can build a one-rope bridge quicker across the stream.  Their squad one, but lost against the competition between their STOs and the stream instructors.

Co.1 Where eagles dare

Last week, I headed out to the Forest Hills Climbing Complex with a writer to work on a cadet profile.  While Joe interviewed our cadet, I took a few shots of the cadets on the obstacle course.  The plan was to shoot Cadet McCullough on the rock wall after lunch.  But Mother Nature had other plans.  It poured right as they were finishing lunch, which made things a little more complicated and slowed everything down.  Because of an afternoon budget meeting, we couldn’t stay to shoot, but I did come away with a few shots and a little practice for when my company arrives.

JROTC Call of the Wild

The second half of Sunday was spent out at the Zodiac boats.  Here, I got to go out on a John boy to take photos of the cadets paddle and attempt to capsize their boats.

JROTC TDC (team development course)

Photos are property of the U.S. Army PAO and Kristin Sherrard.

Boots

Even though there are no faces in these photos, I really like them anyway.

Photos are property of the U.S. Army PAO and Kristin Sherrard.

JROTC – Combat Water Survival Training

Station 1: 5 mins treading water

Station 2: 15m Combat Equipment Swim

Station 3: Equipment release – cadets must jump into the water backwards and remove their vests before resurfacing

Station 4: 3m Unexpected Entry – cadets step off the high dive while blindfolded

Station 5: Survival float – turning their uniforms into flotation devices

Photos are property of the U.S. Army PAO and Kristin Sherrard.

JROTC: Welcome

JROTC cadets arrived Friday night from Jackson, Miss., to participate in exercises at Fort Knox, Ky. The weekend began with a welcoming ceremony conducted by Sgt. Maj. Rucks of Ft. Knox and Col. Willis of JROTC.

A cadet dances during the company’s chants… before being yelled at by cadre.

Sgt. Maj. Rucks addresses the cadets.

Photos are property of the U.S. Army PAO and Kristin Sherrard.

How I will be spending my summer…

As of May 9, 2009, I am no longer a college student. Which means, of course, it’s time to get an internship!!!  Ideally, I would have had a photo internship before now, but I didn’t realize that this is what I wanted to do until a little too late in the game last year, so I spent another great summer at Group Sales at SFKK.

This summer, however, I will be spending my summer as a photojournalism intern at the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Army at Fort Knox, Ky. I will be following Company Delta through their 29 days of training, as well as shooting print and online assignments for The Leader, the Cadet’s newspaper, and hopefully, learning some more multimedia.  Daily shoots from the company will be uploaded to the following Web site: leaderstrainingcourse.com

I will also be updating the blog with shots from the field. Comments are always welcome!