Roger Hawkins International Combat Camera Association speaker - Vietnam: The best of times, the worst of times
	Early addiction to design and photography Memberships American Society of Media Photographers American Society of Architectural Illustrators International Combat Camera Association Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO) Combat Photographer's Association Former member of the Public Relations Society of America
	Education Valley Forge Military Academy - graduates 1963 - 2 years ROTC Carnegie Mellon University - studies architecture and graduates in industrial design 1967 - 2 years ROTC Commissioned 2LT Army Signal Corp Signal Officer Basic Course, Ft Gordon, Georgia Audio Visual Officers Course, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. Graduates with 8500/8511 MOS (Photo Lab Commander/Motion Picture Director)
	Military Service 67-68 Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO), Pentagon) 68-69 promoted to 1LT and command of Detachment A of the 221st Signal Company (Photographic), Republic of Vietnam 69-75 promoted to Captain and joins the inactive reserve 1975 receives honorable discharge from the Army Reserve
	Combat Photo Experience 173rd Airborne Brigade 5 man LRRP Patrol in the mountains west of An Khe 1968 - still photography - avoided direct contact but called in artillery on enemy platoon returning from attack on An Khe(Patrol leader was Sgt. Sylvester Brocatto) 223 company, Pleiku Mike Force operating near Ba Me Ga in the Ban Me Thout Area - motion picture - ambushed VC tax collectors and couriers carrying land mines and documents Mechanized Company of the First Infantry Division searching for VC in a rubber plantation Dust Off 84 (WO Charles Colley) of the 82 Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) Fire fighters from the An Khe air strip respond to rocket attack on POL dump. Dust Off 84 (WO Charles Colley) of the 82 Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) Meeting engagement between a company of the 101st Airborne and a dug in company sized enemy unit in Quang Tin province Fire fighters from the An Khe air strip respond to rocket attack on POL dump.
	Credits Mike Force combat footage incorporated into History Channel's Suicide Missions: MACV/SOG Vietnam Mike Force combat footage incorporated into History Channel's Suicide Missions: Mike Force Vietnam Dustoff footage used in Discovery Channel Wings' Dustoff: Helicopter Ambulance Operations Over Vietnam Washington Post uses 101st Airborne photo to open Sept 16, 2007 book review section Two photos used in Ian Allan/Spearhead publication, 101st Airborne In Vietnam: 'The Screaming Eagles' Editor and designer of multiple issues of the International Combat Camera Association publication Captions Designer of the Department of the Army Special Photographic Office newsletter Authored two articles for the College and University Designers Association (UCDA) magazine, DESIGNer—an article on choosing a photographer and an article on 3D virtual models and interactive campus maps