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Combat photography.

You bring up an area I have had questions about before. I was reading about the two different flag raising on Iwo Jima and from links there heard about combat photographers.

Are these enlisted men who are designated the task that our embeds do now? Does the military still have combat trained soldiers who are responsible for also acquiring a photographic testimony of their activities in the combat zone. Are civilian photographers also referred to as combat photographers? *I can't get amazon to come up right now.

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Are these enlisted men who are designated the task that our embeds do now? Does the military still have combat trained soldiers who are responsible for also acquiring a photographic testimony of their activities in the combat zone.

Yes, most definitely. All of the photos on Department of Defense websites are taken by military photographers. Check out the DefenseLink website http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/ for some incredible pictures from them.

Are civilian photographers also referred to as combat photographers?

Yes, they are. The designation 'combat' has to do with the type of photography they are doing. Some of the most memorable photographs from our past wars have been done by civilians. For example the D-Day photographs of Robert Capa and the pictures of the fighting in Hue during the Vietnam War taken by Don McCullin.