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David all of the president ial photographers come to that job in different ways. Most of them come in having been press photographers covering the campaign. I didnt. It was 1983 and i was a government photographer. I had been a government photographer since day 1, 1967. I was drafted after graduating from high school into the air force. They told me i would be a photographer, and that is what i did. At the time, 1967 the vietnam war was going on. I did not want to go into the army, so i joined the air force. There was a big turnover of air force photo people. There were 500 guys, it was called flight. We all got some kind of aerial photography, Motion Picture photography, lab processing, and still photography. Still photography was at the bottom of the list. I was assigned to the 836 combat support group in florida. I worked for the newspaper but the Strike Command was there and thats kind of where the vietnam war was managed from. At 18 years old, i was photographing generals in meeti