Where's the picture? This one is not worth 10,000 words since threre is no image..just text to count the words.

A military photo journalist..I met one today.  This man goes all over the world and has learned to sleep on his personal time clock. There is not time enough to reset from jet lag from the Middle East to England to some other distant place.

These folks are few in number, yet it is a career field in the military. I am talking USA here.

The conversation started because one of his sons had a D200 Nikon in his hand.  I asked and the story was learned.  They are issued both D2 and D200.  He once used a Nikon F3, preferred for its ruggedness over later models.   They go into the "whatever zone" with an active camera, two extra bodies and a bag of lenses...and a laptop.  

Images are sent directly to the USA from cam through the laptop via satellite dish.  They may then quickly be told to get a shot of this or that since all is GPS and their location is known to the ones receiving the shots.

As far as I know, in his branch of the military, there are 12 photo correspondents.  interesting to me.           TomDart.