Question: Where do you find the photographs?

EASY PEASIE!

Some photographs are from Defense Imagery.
Others are from DVIDS.

DVIDS requires registration. No big deal. You need to register or the picture will be polluted with ghost DVIDS marks all over the picture. You don't have to register. You can just copy the pix at the same size displayed. The ghost image only appears IF you want to go full resolution. Again. NBD. Not a biggie. They are pretty cool. Answer Questions. Yead really! Answer questions and do not spam. Totally coool! Try it. No kidding. Their search engine is cranky. But once again. Patience is a virtue here and will be rewarded. Eventually. Oh, Come On, stop crying already. The whole fricking world is NOT google. No matter what our overlords think.

Defense Imagery doesn't have this speed bump. You can download the photo anyway you want it. You get your choice : High resolution(Note. IF you are going to make color glossy paper prints use the high resolution.) presentation or thumbnail.


Photos are courtesy of your tax payer dollars at work. The one request is that you are going to blog post the pix credit the combat photographer by printing his name with the photo.

Search engine: type: Joseph Giardino in the search box and you will find five other pictures of Big Joe here.

If the search engine doesn't cough up what you want the first time DON'T give up. Try rewording your query. For example:Drop the rank. I use the search term Helmand Province and then just plow through what ever. Just because you didn't find it does not mean it is not there. It's there, alright. Search engines are stupid. Notoriously stupid. They can only search with what they get. So Work it. Work the query. Something will come through. Work it, people!

DOD data bases are not visited by google worms or spiders or whatever the hell they send around snooping for their search engines. If you have found pix's w/o using DOD or DVIDS. Guess what? You find the pixs AFTER they were picked up by bloggers who ARE available to the search engine vermin.

Thanks for the question and for stopping by................................

NOTE: sometimes the sites get over run with requests. Traffic jam. You get a no can do note. No worries, Mate. Just return later when the traffic is down.