You might assume taking pictures for a living is a pretty cush job. Probably is relatively so in many cases, but we bring photographers up the hard way in the Air Force. I got to work with the Combat Camera guys in Bosnia, and was ceaselessly impressed by them the whole time. Those guys along with the ones who did the actual jumping out of helicopters on nighttime roundups had it tough.
IMHO, the highest degree of difficulty in finding and arresting PWFWC’s (persons wanted for war crimes). was at the Combat Camera level. They literally flew around at night suspended in harnesses under stealthed Blackhawks recording IR evidence and intel stuff. That’s on my Top 10 list of Badass.
