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Video Work
The journalists at USNI News are writers first but sometimes you just need to see objects and people in motion to understand what the hell is going on. Over the last ten years, my team and I have refined how to video troops, ships and aircraft in complicated scenarios and blend the results with our print stories.
Evacuation exercise
On a softball field in rural North Carolina, I got a taste of what it would be like to flee a country at short notice. I climbed on to a MV-22 Osprey and flew to the amphibious warship USS Bataan sailing off the coast. The Marines assigned to the ship were simulating an non-combatant evacuation by turning an office building into an embattled U.S. embassy. The exercise was less about combat and more about paperwork, as Marines trained in logistics of people-processing sorted out how to get people from shore to the ship safely. One highlight was the ride back to shore on the Marine UH-1Y Huey with the doors open. In addition to shooting and editing this video, [I wrote a longer feature piece for USNI News](https://news.usni.org/2023/04/26/usni-news-video-marine-exercise-in-n-c-mirrors-parts-of-sudan-embassy-evacuation).
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These are some of my favorite bird photos.
