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59 images Created 22 Jan 2014

Sample of the photography book on The Old Guard soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery by Kate Karwan Burgess

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  • Dignified Transfer at Dover Air Force Base of SPC Adrian M. Perkins, 19, Pine Valley, CA. Died may 17, 2014 in Amman Jordan, from a non-combat related injury. 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, CO.
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  • Dignified Transfer at Dover Air Force Base of SPC Adrian M. Perkins, 19, Pine Valley, CA. Died may 17, 2014 in Amman Jordan, from a non-combat related injury. 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, CO.
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  • Dignified Transfer at Dover Air Force Base of SPC Adrian M. Perkins, 19, Pine Valley, CA. Died may 17, 2014 in Amman Jordan, from a non-combat related injury. 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, CO.
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  • On November 11, 1921, an unknown soldier from World War I was interred at Arlington Cemetery. Since April 6, 1948, Tomb Guard sentinels from the 3rd U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard) have been guarding the tomb, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  In 1958, unknown soldiers of WW II and of the Korean conflict were also interred at Arlington next to the WW I soldier. In 1998 the remains of the Vietnam soldier were disinterred and identified as Air Force 1st Lieutenant Michael J. Blassie, and was reinterred near his surviving family in St. Louis, MO. The crypt previously containing of the Vietnam Unknown will remain empty, but still remains to symbolizes the casualties from the war. The soldiers that volunteer to be Tomb Guard sentinels have to uphold high physical and mental standards, and represent some of the best the Army.
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  • Landscape of headstones in the late afternoon shadows.
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  • A casket team, lead by Staff Sergeant Benjamin Wright from C Company, 1-3 Infantry, practice behind the company area during afternoon training. Here Private First Class Donald Williams is the final recipient of the folded flag. In an actual funeral it would be handed to the Officer in Charge of the funeral who would then deliver the flag to the next of kin. Fort Myer, VA. Feb 26, 2009. ©Kate Karwan Burgess.
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  • Precision, timing, synchronization are keep elements to military honors at a funeral. The soldiers that preform these ceremonies constantly practice and training to reach and then maintain these skills. Here 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon of the Honor Guard Company practices in the company area how to carrying the casket and fold the flag.
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  • B Company Commander, Captain Daniel Rayca, has his hats shaping in mugs on the windowsill of his basement office on Fort Myer, VA. May 8, 2007.
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  • Soldiers from B Company, 1-3 Infantry of the Old Guard at Fort Myers practice one last time behind the barracks before boarding the bus that will take them to a funeral at Arlington Cemetery. May 8, 2007.
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  • Headstone of classmate and friend Jimmy Adamouski.
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  • Flags-In at Arlington National Cemetery by the soldiers of 3rd Infantry Division, The Old Guard. It takes 5-8 hours to place a flag in front of each headstone and 2-3 hours to remove them at the end of the Memorial Day Weekend.
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  • Flags-In at Arlington National Cemetery by the soldiers of 3rd Infantry Division, The Old Guard. It takes 5-8 hours to place a flag in front of each headstone and 2-3 hours to remove them at the end of the Memorial Day Weekend.
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  • Flags-In at Arlington National Cemetery by the soldiers of 3rd Infantry Division, The Old Guard. It takes 5-8 hours to place a flag in front of each headstone and 2-3 hours to remove them at the end of the Memorial Day Weekend.
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  • Sgt. Zayac from B Co. 1-3 Infantry, inspects and gives direction to a firing party participating at a funeral at Arlington Cemetery. The party will get in place well before family members and friends arrive for the funeral.  During the service they will fire three volleys of syncronized fire as part of honors rendered during a military funeral.  May 9, 2007.
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  • Soldiers of a full honors funeral waiting for the casket to arrive for transfer to the caisson.
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  • Full honors funeral for a fallen soldier.
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  • SGT Brian Stewart, PFC Joshua Snider, and SPC Joel Haar of the Caisson Platoon, HHC, 1-3 Infantry Battalion of the Old Guard, take a break in between funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. Sometimes they travel from one funeral to the next with no break, and sometimes they get up to an hour in between the 4-6 funeral missions their team receives daily. May 10, 2007.
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  • Staff Sergeant Stone from B Company 1-3 Infantry tapes off Specialist Hilkey, also from B Co. 2nd Platoon, before getting on the bus that will take them from Fort Myer on to Arlington Cemetery to participate in a funeral. The uniforms are impecable for ceremonies. On the bus they will stand, so not to ruin their creased pants. May 9,2007.
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