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Take advantage of your veteran's discount now! The Digital Artist Roger then entered the architecture program at Carnegie Mellon University before switching to the Industrial Design where he graduated in 1967 at the height of the Viet Nam conflict. As a reserve Army officer, Roger was assigned to the Army Audio Visual Officers School where he was certified in the motion picture/television director and photolab commander military occupation specialty (MOS 8500/8511). His first active assignment was DASPO (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office) at the Pentagon where he screened and critiqued the work of field teams and guided film projects during the civil (and sometimes uncivil) disobedience in the capitol. He also produced documentary footage recording the use of helicopter-mounted television-aided command and control systems. Some of that project was shot on the Pentagon helicopter pad that would be an Al Qaeda target over 33 years later. Roger was reassigned to the 221st Signal Company (Photographic) in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 as commander of Detachment A in An Khe and Pleiku. In addition to the day-to-day operation of a photo lab, Roger assigned combat projects to himself as well as his cameramen. Clips from Roger's cinematography assignments with the Special Forces appear in the History Channel's Suicide Missions:MACV-SOG and Suicide Missions: Mike Force. Also he filmed many of the flight scenes in Discovery Channel Wings' Dustoff: Helicopter ambulance operations over Vietnam. In civilian life, Roger does design, photography, and public relations. He has worked for a leading engineering/architecture consultancy and done public relations/publication design/editing and photography for a $2 billion high-tech multinational. Roger's volunteers as webmaster and archival consultant for the International Combat Camera Association where he has constant access to military and civilian photographers and archivists including the Texas Tech Vietnam Project and the Army's center for Military History.
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