Always, however, your goal as a Combat Photographer is telling Soldier ‘ stories of success, struggle, and sacrifice. You might tag along with infantry one day, military police another day, and medics the next. military for the government and the public.Īrmed with digital cameras, you’re dispatched to military zones around the world, where you photograph the people and moments you deem most newsworthy: for example, patrols, raids, and firefights humanitarian missions or even life at barracks, camps, and prisons. Typically a member of the military – although you might also be employed by a news organization – you’re part Historian and part Photojournalist, tasked with documenting the actions of the U.S. Shows the photographers in action on land, in the sky, and on the sea as they. These are the kinds of pictures you take as a Combat Photographer. Traces the role played by the combat photographer from World War I to Korea. And the image of a green sky that’s alive with fire during the American bombing of Baghdad in the first Iraq war. Defense (OSD), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS). helicopters swarming the countryside from the Vietnam War. The mission of COMCAM forces is to provide the Office of the Secretary of. For instance, the photo of the flag raisers at Iwo Jima at the end of World War II. History books are brimming with these iconic war photographs. A Combat Photographer is the person behind the lens, entrusted to capture on photo the individual moments and pervasive spirit of American military operations. Photos of war are famous not only for their technique but also for their potent emotion, which reflects both the content of the image and the content of the war.