PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti -- Airmen of the 621st Contingency Response Wing gather outside their makeshift headquarters at the Port au Prince airport Friday. The wing will be responsible for organizing the airfield and setting up a reception area for relief supplies delivered to the airport. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Danielle Johnson)

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Command Sgt. Maj. Rutherford gives sermon.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Command Sgt. Maj. Jimmy Rutherford, senior enlisted advisor of 27th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division-North, leads a religious sermon about positive change during a New Year’s Eve Watch Night service Dec. 31, 2010. Rutherford, a native of Norristown, Pa., also led the service members and civilians at Contingency Operating Site Marez in uplifting songs, playing on a keyboard throughout the spiritual service.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Terence Ewings, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

Technical Sgt. Will Harden, 821st Contingency Response Group, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., shows how to prepare a vehicle for a Sling-Load with a CH-47D Chinook, Detachment 1, Company B, 3/238th Aviation Regiment, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Aug 9, 2016, at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Mich., during Northern Strike 2016. Northern Strike 16 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 Army, Air Force, Marine, and Special Forces service members from 20 states and three coalition countries during the first three weeks of August 2016 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, both located in northern Michigan. The exercise strives to provide accessible, readiness-building opportunities for military units from all service branches to achieve and sustain proficiency in conducting mission command, air, sea, and ground maneuver integration, and the synchronization of fires in a joint, multinational, decisive action environment. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Scott Thompson/released)

A fan gets his dream.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Private First Class Randolph Hutchinson Jr., a cargo specialist assigned to the 89th Transportation Company, 6th Transportation Battalion, 49th Quartermaster Brigade, thanks Chad Kagy, a BMX rider on the Bikes Over Baghdad tour, for his brand new BMX bike during the tour’s visit to Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, June 11, 2011. Kagy presented the U.S. Division-North Soldier with the bike for his help in the assembly of event’s ramps at COB Speicher. Hutchinson, an avid BMX fan and amateur rider since childhood, said he is eager to get back into the sport. “I’ve been out of biking so long, trying to provide for my family, I’d almost forgotten how much I love it,” said the Ocala, Fla. native. “When these guys showed up and I got to hang out with them and help them build, I started getting flashbacks, and I’m ready to get back into it.”

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD-N PAO)

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Paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conduct live fire, urban operations training on Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 9. The White Falcons, currently part of the Global Response Force, conducted a two-week intensive training cycle designed to reinforce combat skills for the nation’s airborne assault-capable, contingency unit.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, 2/82 PAO NCOIC)

Airmen from the 60th Medical Group and Contingency Response Wing, Travis Air Force Base, Ca., set up a field hospital during an Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support Health Response Team exercise simulating an urban earthquake in the SOUTHCOM AOR on Travis AFB, 8 Feb. 2011. The mission of an EMEDS team, which includes physicians, nurses, and a variety of medical technicians, is to rapidly deploy and provide forward stabilization, primary care, and dental services to support a population-at-risk of 3,000 to 5,000 people. Released (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr.)

Mayor’s Cell Soldiers fix air conditioner.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – Specialist Eric Custer, right, a Westcliffe, Colo., native and a combat engineer with 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, “Black Jack,” 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division-North, and Pfc. Juan Patrick, a Dallas native and communication specialist with 2nd AAB, work together to fix an air conditioning unit on Contingency Operating Base Warhorse, Iraq, June 21, 2011. Both Soldiers work in the COB Warhorse Mayor’s Cell, which is responsible for numerous base functions including facilitating living accommodations for visitors, acting as intermediaries between units and contracting agencies, coordinating work for local national employees, and filling out work requests for Soldiers and units.

(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Naylor, 2nd AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

Medic helps Soldier breathe.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – Spc. Kathy Hysong, a Baker City, Ore., native, and a medic with 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, helps a simulated casualty breathe during a mass casualty training exercise on Contingency Operating Base Warhorse, Iraq, June 6, 2011.

(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Naylor, 2nd AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

Soldier sings and plays guitar.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Staff Sgt. Phil Clark, a guitar player and vocalist of the 4th Infantry Division rock band “H.E.A.T.,” performs for Soldiers assigned to 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division at Contingency Operating Site Marez Memorial Dining Facility, March 14, 2011. Clark, a native of Colorado Springs, Colo., is currently on his third deployment to Iraq touring with 4th Inf. Div.’s Ivy Division band to provide entertainment to U.S. Division-North Soldiers deployed to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Terence Ewings, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

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Paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conduct live fire, urban operations training on Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 9. The White Falcons, currently part of the Global Response Force, conducted a two-week intensive training cycle designed to reinforce combat skills for the nation’s airborne assault-capable, contingency unit.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, 2/82 PAO NCOIC)

Meeting Soldiers.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPICHER, Iraq – Daniel Graham, tight end for the Denver Broncos, tells Soldiers assigned to 4th Infantry Division, from Fort Carson Colo., about the Broncos’ plans for next season, during the Super Sunday Tour at U.S. Division-North Headquarters, Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, Feb. 4, 2011. During the tour, Graham and other National Football League players and cheerleaders met with Soldiers throughout Iraq to boost morale and show their appreciation for all of the sacrifices troops and their Families make in service to the nation.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD-N PAO)

The Kentucky Air Guard's 123rd Contingency Response Group established a Joint Task Force-Port Opening aerial port and trucking hub from scratch at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on March 25 and 26, 2012. Working in conjunction with Soldiers from the Army's 690th Rapid Port Opening Element, the Kentucky Airmen moved more than 1,060 short tons of simulated cargo in three days. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)

Room Clearing.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Soldiers from the Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Calvary Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvary Division, trains an Iraqi soldier on close-quarters movement during a week of marksmanship training at an Iraqi military post near Contingency Operating Base, Speicher, Iraq, Aug. 18. The Iraqi soldiers learned basic, close-quarters, and advanced marksmanship techniques and how to enter and clear a room in an urban environment.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Crystal Hudson, 29th MPAD, USD - N PAO)

Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 688th Rapid Port Opening Element move cargo at the forward operating node at Amedee Army Airfield, Calif., on March 9, 2016. The 688th RPOE is working in conjunction with the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group and a team from the Defense Logistics Agency to operate Joint Task Force-Port Opening Sangala during a week-long exercise called Operation Lumberjack. The objective of the JTF-PO is to establish an aerial port of debarkation, provide initial distribution capability and set up warehousing for distribution beyond the forward node. (Kentucky Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)

The 821st Contingency Response Squadron Hellhounds run on blue track with a Prisoner of War/Missing in Action batons Sept. 15, 2016, at Travis Air Force Base, California. The 24 hour run was held as part of POW/MIA Recognition Day. . The POW/MIA baton holds a flash drive that contains all known names of all the accounted for POW/MIAs since WWI. At present, more than 83,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars and other conflicts. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Heide Couch)

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U.S. Air Force logistics personnel, assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a contracted Boeing 747 airliner at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 9, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Megan Floyd)

Is there a Doctor in the house?

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – Lt. Col. Roger Gelperin, brigade surgeon, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, “Warriors,” 25th Infantry Division, addresses attendees at the Emergency Medical Technician Course Graduation Ceremony, Feb. 3, 2011, at Faulkenberg Theater on Contingency Operating Base Warhorse, Diyala province, Iraq. During the five-week course at COB Warhorse Iraqi Policemen and Iraqi Army soldiers learned how to properly administer first aid, better preparing them for situations in which immediate medical attention dictates a casualty’s survival rate.

(U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Robert England, 2nd AAB PAO, 25th Inf. Div., USD-N)

Spc. Hubbard constructs brackets.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE COBRA, Iraq – Spc. Michael Hubbard, Troop A, 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, constructs mounting brackets to support the emplacement of the Rapid Deployment Integrated Surveillance System at Contingency Operating Site Cobra, Diyala province, Iraq, April 16, 2011.

(U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Kyle Miller, 2nd Sqdn., 14th Cav. Regt., 2nd AAB PAO, 25th Inf. Div., USD-N)

This large contingency of runners from South Korea ran by us ascending Heartbreak Hill. At the very top of the hill, the entire group assembled with others that were waiting for them at the side of the road. They proceeded to dance and bang on drums and cymbals - the joy and elation on their faces was apparent.

I know the rhythmic, trance-like throb of the drums helped pull more than a few runners up the last of the long hill. It was pretty amazing and I was glad I was there to catch it.

U.S. Air Force logistics personnel, assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III large transport aircraft from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 11, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Ashleigh S. Pavelek)

Airman from the 821st Contingency Response Squadron run on the track at daybreak with the United States and Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flags, Sept. 21, 2018, Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Service members, civilians and family members will keep the POW/MIA flag in constant motion for a 24 hour period. Over 1,000 Travis personnel and family members will log over 200 miles, running around the base track, before the final runner carries the flag across the finish line Friday afternoon. According to the Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency, at present, more than 82,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Gulf Wars and other conflicts. During the run Airmen will recite the names of all service members still unaccounted for. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch)

Members from the 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Detachment 1 Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility and Royal Air Force fire department off load a wounded Marine from an ambulance bus onto a C-130 Hercules at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. The CASF team is responsible for taking care of and transporting patients from the staging facility and role hospital to aircraft who are then transported to the next level of medical care. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz)(Released)

Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard, soldiers from the U.S. Army and specialists from the Defense Logistics Agency conduct Operation Lumberjack at Amedee Army Airfield, Calif., March 6-11, 2016. The Kentucky Air Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group is working in conjunction with the Army’s 688th Rapid Port Opening Element and a team from the DLA to operate Joint Task Force-Port Opening Sangala during the week-long exercise. The objective of the JTF-PO is to establish an aerial port of debarkation, provide initial distribution capability and set up warehousing for distribution beyond a forward node. (Kentucky Air National Guard photo by 1st Lt. James Killen)

Traffic and Transportation Management Plan Contingency Engineers during the operation of the cicLAvia Universal City between North Hollywood and Studio City Car-Free Open-Streets Bicycle Route followed by crossing point intersection for all automotive traffic vehicles and bike crossings on Vineland Avenue and Camarillo Street intersection traffic signal green lights and pedestrian crosswalk crossing don't walk orange hand lights located at North Hollywood Arts District of South San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California 91601.

Airmen with the 123rd Contingency Response Group prepare for their deployment to West Africa from the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 2, 2014. The Guardsmen will work to set up a logistics hub in support of Operation United Assistance. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Raymond)

CAMP BUEHRING, KUWAIT — Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, center, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and Lt. Gen. James L. Terry, commanding general, U.S. Army Central, discuss operations during a briefing by leaders from around 1st ABCT, 1st Inf. Div. and attached units. Odierno praised the brigade’s medical readiness as well as its flexibility, which he deemed essential in its mission as a contingency reserve force in the region. (Sgt. Daniel Stoutamire, 1st Inf. Div.)

Soldiers working under the hood.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Spc. Nathan Cummings, a mechanic, assigned to Troop D, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, observes a 3rd Battalion, 11th Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division soldier checking the oil-level on a troop support carrier, March 14, 2011. Cummings, a native of Willow Springs, Mo., taught the Iraqi mechanics how to perform preventive maintenance checks and services on tactical vehicles during the 10-day maintenance training classes at Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Terence Ewings, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHERS, Iraq – Sgt. Gregory Lefevre, a military intelligence noncommissioned officer, Company B, Division Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, leads his peers in the reciting of the Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer during the DSTB NCO Induction Ceremony at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, Jan. 17, 2011. Lefevre, recently selected as the DSTB NCO of the Quarter, took center stage to lead the group of junior leaders completing a chapter in the history of DSTB, deployed in support of Operation New Dawn as part of U.S. Division-North.

(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. David Strayer, 109th MPAD, USD-N PAO)

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SFC Ronnie Russell and SFC Jacob Cheever keep the show running as they gas up the generator powering one of the many tents at the Contingency Command Post's operational display on Palm Circle, 1 Aug 2012. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Edward Hooks)

U.S. Army Pfc. Matthew Avery, an all-terrain forklift operator for the 688th Rapid Port Opening Element, moves cargo at the forward operating node at Amedee Army Airfield, Calif., on March 9, 2016. The 688th RPOE is working in conjunction with the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group and a team from the Defense Logistics Agency to operate Joint Task Force-Port Opening Sangala during a week-long exercise called Operation Lumberjack. The objective of the JTF-PO is to establish an aerial port of debarkation, provide initial distribution capability and set up warehousing for distribution beyond the forward node. (Kentucky Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)

Placing a CHU.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Contractors place containerized housing units in a life support area at the Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center, March 11, 2011. Master Sgt. Juan Darby, a native of New Orleans and the Contingency Operating Site Marez Department of Public Works noncommissioned officer in charge, assigned to 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, helped plan the LSA for Iraqi trainers who will eventually take control of planning and conducting the training at the enduring training site known as GWTC.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Washington, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing, Travis Air force Base, ready pallets packed with equipment and supplies to load on to aircraft deploying to Honduras as part of relief efforts for a simulated earthquake scenario during a Travis Response Exercise, 19 March 2014. (Released - U.S. Air Force Photograph - Heide Couch)

The 821st Contingency Response Squadron Hellhounds run on blue track with a Prisoner of War/Missing in Action batons Sept. 15, 2016, at Travis Air Force Base, California. The 24 hour run was held as part of POW/MIA Recognition Day. . The POW/MIA baton holds a flash drive that contains all known names of all the accounted for POW/MIAs since WWI. At present, more than 83,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars and other conflicts. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Heide Couch)

(Award accepted by Col. Paul Pardew) MAJ Tautkus, 409th contracting support brigade, expeditionary contracting command, provided exceptional contingency contracting support to the combined joint task force-horn of Africa.

Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, augmented by troops from the active-duty Air Force and Air National Guard units in multiple states, load relief supplies onto trucks for distribution at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the wake of Hurricane Maria Oct. 6, 2017. The unit’s Airmen established an aerial port of debarkation upon arrival here Sept. 23, and have processed more than 7.2 million pounds of cargo and humanitarian aid for distribution in the first three weeks of the operation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Lt. Col. Dale Greer)

For me an important part of photography is to move out of my comfort zone and this series of images featuring the Janis Claxton Dancers certainly made me do that. The shoot was taken during a live performance at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. In contrast to my usual food and drink photography the subjects were moving (frequently fast and unpredictably), light levels were challenging to say the least and there were countless distractions in the background. This and the other 6 images in the group are the result. I hope that you like them.

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Pullups.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Staff Sergeant Manuel Montanez, night joint operations center fires noncommissioned officer with 4th Infantry Division, and Houston native, completes a round of towel pull-ups during a 31-minute workout to honor the 31 fallen service members who lost their lives in Afghanistan, Aug. 6, 2011. The event took place on Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, Sept. 2.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Crystal Hudson, 29th MPAD, USD-N PA)

401st AFSB held a patch ceremony for DET 13 Soldiers assigned to brigade headquarters.

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U.S. Air Force logistics personnel, assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III large transport aircraft from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 10, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder)

Vehicle inspection.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – With fellow policemen watching, an Iraqi policeman assigned to 3rd Federal Police Division uses a mirror to inspect a vehicle during checkpoint training at Contingency Operating Site Marez, Feb. 17, 2011. Trainees worked with Soldiers of 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, to enhance Iraqi Security Forces’ checkpoint operations.

(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Washington, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)

(Award accepted by Col. Paul Pardew) MAJ Tautkus, 409th contracting support brigade, expeditionary contracting command, provided exceptional contingency contracting support to the combined joint task force-horn of Africa.

Trucks carrying concrete barriers sit waiting for nightfall, Feb. 25 at Contingency Operating Base Marez, Iraq. Each night, Soldiers with the 733rd Transportation Company, 395th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 15th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) deliver the barriers to checkpoints in and around Mosul as part of the Disputed Internal Border Sites mission, which aims to provide extra security at what is traditionally the religious and cultural border between Iraq and Kurdistan.