Congrats. I'm going on 16 years myself. Almost there to retirement (thinkbeer
WOOOOO! Almost there! (drinks)
Here are some more of my photos from Iraq. These are just a select few but you can look at more here (
www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum). I have over a hundred already uploaded to my Flickr but I still have many many more to go through.
A Navy Corpsman at Observation Post Sina'a in Al Fallujah. We had been up for more than 30 hours building and fortifying the new OP with sandbags.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/1231974176/" title="Devil-Doc-2 by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1296/1231974176_78c39f245f_o.jpg" width="572" height="720" alt="Devil-Doc-2" /></a>
This is a shot of the Marines with 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines trying to get some sleep in 120+ degree heat out at OP Sina'i after the long night of moving sandbags and building it up. I joined them shortly after the photo.(sleep)
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/1231083505/" title="Sleeping by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1435/1231083505_3d461b8791_o.jpg" width="720" height="480" alt="Sleeping" /></a>
A night vision shot of a Marine on patrol in Fallujah. I got to play with some badass equipment out there! This night vision sat between the camera body and the lense.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/1889043648/" title="Night-Patrol by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/1889043648_cd8e03b9e1.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Night-Patrol" /></a>
Two Marines with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines take cover inside a garage in Fallujah while on patrol.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/1921150978/" title="Lance Cpl. Elleson by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2144/1921150978_497f5175e0_o.jpg" width="864" height="576" alt="Lance Cpl. Elleson" /></a>
A tank patrols through the center of Al Fallujah.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/474717153/" title="Armor-on-the-Streets by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/474717153_52bd64296d_o.jpg" width="950" height="373" alt="Armor-on-the-Streets" /></a>
This photo was taken in Karmah at the Iraqi Police Station. The patrol base/police station had come under attack by insurgents and I ran to the roof top with the Soldiers and Iraqi Police when the shooting started. Here an Iraqi reloads his machine gun while another ducks for cover against the sandbag fortification on the roof.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/474717159/" title="Iraqi-Police by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/474717159_c2517a0ee3_o.jpg" width="950" height="633" alt="Iraqi-Police" /></a>
This is what I saw one morning when I woke up on Camp Fallujah on the few days I was not outside the wire on patrol or living in the city of Fallujah. No color correction has been made and it is three photos pieced together using PhotoStitch.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/474808190/" title="Clouds by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/220/474808190_46a9123021_o.jpg" width="900" height="219" alt="Clouds" /></a>
The vertical version of this shot was used on the cover of Leatherneck Magazine.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/2298583844/" title="Through the Fire and Flames-WS by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2298583844_8b5d430e1e_b.jpg" width="1024" height="640" alt="Through the Fire and Flames-WS" /></a>
Tanks with 2d Tank Battalion roll out from the staging area on Camp Fallujah on their way to patrol the main supply routes around Fallujah.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdcorum/2296629480/" title="Sunset Tanks by SDCorum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/2296629480_54e418caf5_b.jpg" width="1024" height="640" alt="Sunset Tanks" /></a>