Shortly after my deployment to Iraq I was asked to develop the website for the Massachusetts National Guard. For the last four years I have managed and maintained the site. Posting well over 450 separate stories and videos. This year our organization submitted the site for consideration in the National Guard Bureau Media Awards. Our site came in second only behind a state that had their site outsourced to a development company. Not too shabby for an all guard designed and managed website. I would be remiss in not thanking the folks at NGB and GKO for our hosting and technical support.
Mass Guard website places second in NGB media awards
April 12th, 2012 | Posted by in Military - (Comments Off)
Here is the new poster I created as part of the Massachusetts National Guard’s Suicide awareness campaign. The hands were shot in the DA photo studio on a green screen and a background was placed in after.
Here is the original photo.
Some time ago I worked as a screen print artist for a local company. I’ve since moved on to a different job but it’s always nice to rely on past experiences to get new tasks done. Here is the T-shirt design for the 26th “Yankee” Brigade, Massachusetts National Guard. I was asked to come up with final art by the brigade commander based on a comp he came up with. The software I used for this was illustrator and photoshop.
Deploying Soldier receives early holiday gift
January 6th, 2011 | Posted by in Military | Photos | Stories - (Comments Off)
- LOWELL, Mass. – Spc. Vannek Pech, a radar operator with Battery E, (Target Acquisition Battery), 101st Field Artillery Regiment, Massachusetts National Guard, holds his newborn daughter Evelyn , with wife Leakhena Ian in the background, shortly after arriving at Lowell General Hospital here, Dec. 6 2010. Pech had just boarded a plane and was prepared to deploy when senior leaders pulled him off to rush him to be with his wife. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, Massachusetts National Guard Public Affairs)
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, Massachusetts National Guard
LOWELL, Mass. – Seventy deploying Soldiers filed from the bus that had brought them across the flight line to the waiting command group and the aircraft that would fly them from Hanscom Air Force Base to their mobilization site at Fort Bliss, Texas on Dec. 6, 2010.
The line snaked along with starts and stops as the Soldiers, apparently preoccupied with their own thoughts, hesitated briefly as they acknowledged the general and two command sergeants major waiting to wish them off as they reached the foot of the boarding stairs. (more…)
Salem designated as birthplace of the National Guard
August 20th, 2010 | Posted by in Military - (Comments Off)
SALEM, Mass. – Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signs legislation designating the City of Salem as the birthplace of the National Guard as local and state legislature, veterans groups and members of the Massachusetts National Guard look on during an official ceremony held at the Salem city hall, Aug. 19, 2010. The origins of the National Guard are traced back to Salem Common, the location of the fist muster of militiamen in 1637. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, Massachusetts National Guard Public Affairs)
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Don Veitch, Massachusetts National Guard Public Affairs
SALEM, Mass. – Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed legislation designating the city of Salem as the birthplace of the National Guard during a ceremony held in city hall here, Aug. 19, 2010.
The governor was joined at the ceremony hosted by Salem Mayor Kimberley Driscoll by numerous state and local officials, veterans groups and members of the Massachusetts National Guard.
“For a community that has so much history, we didn’t think it was possible to add to it,“ said Driscoll. “But certainly it was, by having Salem recognized as the birthplace of the National Guard.”
Driscoll said having the city officially acknowledged as the birthplace of the National Guard is very special, particularly now when the Guard is playing such a large role in defending our country. (more…)
A rifleman with Company B, 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, lays down suppressive fire to cover the movements of his fire team during individual movement techniques course during an eXportable Combat Training Capability exercise at Camp Edwards, June 11, 2010
Here is a photo I took while on Annual Training with the 65th Press Camp Headquarters.
I was able to catch the muzzle flash while the soldier was running through a training lane with his unit.
The shot was one of 20 on continuous shutter to capture the the split second timing required to record the flash.
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