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DIMOC welcomes 1975 Cambodia imagery
by Keith Faust
DoD VI Records Center

The Defense Imagery Management Operations Center
(DIMOC) Visual Information (VI) Records Center, through
outreach efforts to obtain physical imagery, has uncovered
rare imagery of U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean departing
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as that country’s government fell to
rebel forces in early 1975.
Phnom Penh was surrounded by followers of the Communist
Party of Kampuchea, commonly known as the Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia with an iron fist from 1975
to early 1979.

Dean and other evacuees boarded several U.S. Marine Corps
CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters during a non-combatant
evacuation operation led by the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit
on April 12, 1975.
Operation Eagle Pull successfully extracted 146 U.S. nationals
and 444 Cambodians. The evacuation was planned for two
years and completed with no loss of life.
The historical imagery may have been lost forever if not for
the efforts of VI Records Center personnel who receive, digitize

and archive Department of Defense (DoD) Visual Information
(VI) for eventual transfer to the National Archives and Records
Administration.
The 35 mm negatives were obtained as a result of a gift of deed
from Andy Bolinger, who served as a Marine Corps air crewman
during the operation. A gift of deed is a formal and legal
agreement between the donor and the repository transferring
ownership of and legal rights to the donated materials.
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Above: U.S. Marines secure the perimeter of Landing Zone Hotel during operation Eagle Pull in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 12, 1975. Eagle Pull evacuated Americans and
civilians from the country. In the foreground is a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 462. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)

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Thomas M. Ruyle
Lead Writer/Editor, DIMOC
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 301-222-6209

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Brandon Spragins
Visual Information Specialist, DIMOC
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 301-222-6530

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U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia John Gunther Dean, center, and others fly aboard
a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter during operation Eagle Pull
in Cambodia April 12, 1975. Eagle Pull evacuated Americans and civilians from
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)
Bolinger, who retired from the Army
National Guard as a chief warrant
officer in 2012, wasn’t a designated
photographer, but carried a camera
with him on many flights. “Everywhere
I went was historical stuff,” Bolinger
said, recalling events in Southeast Asia.

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Riverside, California, is the central DoD VI
archive, holding the third-largest imagery
collection in the U.S. government with more
than 1.1 million physical media assets. DoD
organizations can contact DIMOC to digitize
physical VI material in their possession.

DoD personnel aware of physical imagery
should go to http://www.dimoc.mil/quick/
physicalImagery.html for more information on
transferring the assets to DIMOC.

DIMOC actively solicits physical
imagery from throughout the DoD
in order to preserve the DoD’s visual
history. Digitized permanent records
are made available for download by
DoD personnel and organizations “We encourage anyone with access to
“Obtaining historically significant through www.dimoc.mil.
material like this to contact us so we can
imagery like the images provided by
preserve it for the ages,” Abrams said.
Mr. Bolinger doesn’t happen every day,” DoD
organizations
submitting
said VI Records Center Director Dan physical imagery will coordinate with Much of the physical imagery at the DoD
Abrams.
DIMOC on preparation efforts and organizational level is being held in nonshipping, and DIMOC will handle climate controlled conditions, at risk of
DIMOC is in the third year of a the rest. Examples of physical and deterioration.
digitization and storage contract legacy imagery include prints, slides,
worth more than $5 million. The videotapes, films, negatives and “We encourage anyone with access to
material like this to contact us so we can A U.S. Marine runs to secure the perimeter at
contract provides DoD customers and digital imagery on hard drives.
stakeholders the most cost-efficient
preserve it for the ages,” Abrams said.
Landing Zone Hotel during operation Eagle
Pull in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 12, 1975.
means to perform timely, high-quality The VI Records Center, located in
(U.S. Marine Corps photo)
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by Thomas M. Ruyle,
Lead Writer/Editor DIMOC
It started with a casual chat.
Brandon Spragins, a visual information
specialist with the Defense Imagery
Management Operations Center, was
catching up with his friend and former
colleague Alfredo Barraza one night in
late 2016.
The conversation turned to Spragins’s
duties with DIMOC, and Barraza thought
of something his office needed help
with.
Barraza, a visual information specialist
with the Baltimore regional office of the
Army Corps of Engineers, was looking
for options to manage his office’s vast
collection of prints, slides and other
visual imagery dating back nearly 100
years.
With an impending office move, Barraza
knew the new facility would not be large
enough to house the physical imagery,
so he was looking for digitization options
that wouldn’t bust his office’s budget.
“They had a requirement that they

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Employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers review historic photographs in
Baltimore Jan. 28, 2017. (DoD photos by Thomas M. Ruyle)
needed to fulfill, taking physical imagery
and transferring it to digital. That’s when
I directed him toward Julia Hickey,” said
Spragins.
The physical media covered subjects
from site surveys to completed projects,
and historical events such as the Corps’
assistance in removing the wreckage of
Air Florida Flight 90 from the Potomac
River in Washington, D.C., in 1982.
DIMOC archivists Julia Hickey and Dennis
Martin visited the Baltimore office Jan.
28 to take stock of the holdings and start
the process of shipping them to the DoD
VI Records Center in Riverside, California,
for digitization and archiving. Hickey
estimates more than 5,000 items will be
transferred to DIMOC this spring.
“The historic value of these images can’t

be overstated. The Corps of Engineers
has played a huge role in our nation’s
infrastructure, and we’re excited to make
these images accessible to the American
people,” Hickey said.

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Alfredo Barraza reviews U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers slides with Dennis Martin and
DIMOC staff at the Corps’ Baltimore office
Jan. 28, 2017.

But it isn’t stopping there.
It turns out many regional offices of the
Corps are also interested in DIMOC’s
imagery management services, and it
may result in more than 100,000 images
digitized and added to the DoD Digital
Visual Information Archive.
“We look forward to a fruitful, mutually
beneficial relationship with the Corps,”
Hickey said.
Does your unit or organization have
physical imagery management needs?
Find out more at http://www.dimoc.mil/
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organize the captioning and metadata
process, ensuring all essential keywords
were implemented for archival
purposes. JCCC planning officer
Wally Reeves created a VI imagery
accessioning plan to standardize the
image management process.

assisted in speeding our distribution
process up significantly. Our folks were
able to quickly caption their material
because we had laid the foundation
long in advance of I-Day. It was brilliant,
and I highly recommend it for all events
that demand a quick turn on product.”

Ruyle and Reeves conducted a
captioning, metadata and accessioning
class for JTF-NCR personnel Jan. 10 at
Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. The
Joint Combat Camera Center, DIMOC
training proved crucial, as questions
from JTF personnel resulted in some
last-minute improvements to the
More than 70 active duty, reserve and
overall plan.
National Guard visual information (VI)
professionals assigned to Joint Task
U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Joy
Force - National Capital Region (JTFJosephson, the senior enlisted adviser
NCR) provided still and motion media
to JTF-NCR, said, “The training also
coverage during the inauguration of
President Donald J. Trump as the 45th
President of the United States on Jan.
20, 2017.

One vital aspect of the accessioning
plan considered the possibility of
reduced bandwidth and connectivity
due to large crowds, slowing the
transmission of imagery. As it turned
out, that was exactly the case.
However, the JCCC had established a
contingency procedure.

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The JCCC’s Ashley Webster traveled
to Fort McNair with a hard drive Jan.
21 to collect all imagery that was

not uploaded to DVIDS the day of the event.
Webster was able to ensure all imagery from
the event was retained properly.
More than 3,500 still and motion images were
accessioned from the event. The feature page
on DVIDS received over 40,000 views, 9,000
distributions and 6,000 downloads.
Tom Budzyna, a media operations planner
with DMA’s Joint Operations Center, noted
JCCC’s role in successfully documenting the
inauguration.
“There’s a great connection between the
Defense Video and Imagery Distribution,
DIMOC and the JCCC, and the entire defense
community should exploit it more often,”
Budzyna said.
For more information on how the JCCC can
assist your unit with an upcoming operation or
exercise, email [email protected] or call 301-2226273.

Weeks before the event, the Joint
Combat Camera Center (JCCC)
coordinated with JTF-NCR to ensure
timely ingestion, distribution and
archiving of the imagery through
the Defense Video and Imagery
Distribution System (DVIDS). The JCCC
created the JTF NCR 58th Presidential
Inauguration feature page in DVIDS as
a one-stop shop for media outlets to
access and use the imagery.

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The JTF-NCR leadership asked the
JCCC to help develop a plan outlining
essential
imagery
management
procedures into one document.

Members of the media prepare for the 58th Presidential Inauguration in Washington,
D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. More than 5,000 military personnel from across all branches of the
Thomas Ruyle, the Defense Imagery armed forces of the United States, including reserve and National Guard components,
Operations Management Center lead provided ceremonial support and Defense Support of Civil Authorities during the
writer, created a document to help inaugural period. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos)

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“It’s time. We need to be out there. We
need to be able to communicate with
the VI, Combat Camera and Public Affairs
communities,” said DIMOC Director Barbara
Burfeind. “It’s going to be a big part of who
we are.”

What’s not to like?
The Defense Imagery Management
Operations Center established its official
online presence with a new Facebook page
March 9.

The Defense Imagery page will keep
the DoD community informed of new
processes, trending topics, customer
service capabilities, DIMOC’s range of
services offered, galleries of great DoD
visual imagery, policy updates and much
more.

The new page, found at www.facebook.
com/DoD.Imagery,
reflects
DIMOC’s

Drop by, share with us, like and follow us,
and join the discussion!

by Thomas M. Ruyle, DIMOC

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Here’s your chance to shape the future of DIMOC!
We’re launching a questionnaire throughout May to get a better
understanding of what DIMOC can do better for you, your colleagues and
the DoD community at large. It’s your opportunity to help us help you.
Simply go to the following URL and complete the questionnaire. Let your
voice be heard and help us mold DIMOC to better serve you.

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Reminder
The DoD Visual Information Style Guide is now available online! Get the word
out, especially to the Public Affairs, Combat Camera and VI communities at:
http://www.dimoc.mil/documents/styleGuide/DoD_Captioning_Style_
Guide.pdf
https://static.dvidshub.net/training/DoD_Captioning_Style_Guide.pdf

VI Policy Q&A
QUESTION: “Why aren’t Weapons Systems Imagery considered a part of
Combat Camera (COMCAM)?”
ANSWER: As established in joint doctrine, COMCAM is “Specially-trained
expeditionary forces from Service-designated units capable of providing
high-quality directed visual information during military operations (JP
3-61).” Therefore, only forces from Service-designated COMCAM units can
be COMCAM. Weapons Systems Imagery falls under JP 2-03 “Geospatial
Intelligence in Joint Operations,” and is in fact not Visual Information at all; it
is “imagery.” As established in JP 3-61, this “imagery” only becomes VI (and
is assigned a VIRIN) when it is proposed for public release (doctrinally called
“derivative VI”).
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Reminder
DoDI 5420.20 “Public Affairs Relations with For-Profit Businesses and
Business Industry Organizations,” published Sept. 29, 2016, stipulates
all DoD component website VI galleries (including social media
websites), regardless of domain, are required to prominently display
the official DoD “Notice of Limitations.”
DoDI 5420.20 is available for download at: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/
directives/corres/pdf/541020p.pdf
The Limitations for Public Use language can be viewed on the DIMOC
website at: http://www.dimoc.mil/resources/limitations.html
Under Development
DoDI 5040.02, “Visual Information” (Full Revision), incorporates and
cancels DoDI 5040.07, “Visual Information Productions,” as an enclosure
(effective upon publication).
DoD 5120.20 “American Forces Network (AFN) Program”
- Permanently retires the term “American Forces Television and Radio
Service (AFRTS).”
- Assigns responsibility for AFN Program to the DMA Director.,
which The AFN program encompasses the distribution of U.S. news,
information, entertainment programming, and command information
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The Defense Visual Information Steering Committee voted unanimously Feb. 21 to change
the name of the DoD Captioning Style Guide to the DoD Visual Information Style Guide.
Thomas Ruyle, the Lead Writer-Editor at the Defense Imagery Management Operations
Center and primary manager of the guide, said the name change was overdue.

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“The guide has grown to encapsulate a lot more than just writing good captions,” Ruyle
said.

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In concert with the Visual Information Editorial Board (VIEB), comprising military and
civilian representatives of each of the Services, a new edition of the guide is expected in
May or June.

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Additionally, DIMOC is in the process of building a DoD Visual Information Style Guide
mobile app. Ruyle will solicit volunteers to test the app this spring before it is officially
fielded. The app is being designed to operate in austere environments, such as aboard
ship or in remote locations where cellular signals are not available. “The entire guide will
be on your mobile device, and it won’t take up a lot of memory. You’ll be able to use it
anywhere you go,” Ruyle said.

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Go to DIMOC’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DoD.Imagery for news and updates
on the VI Style Guide and mobile app.

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circumstances: swapping between camera and rifle while taking fire. In this video, British
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Class 020 - Cancelled

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Content Management Course
(4 weeks) 16 students

Class 020 - 3 Apr - 28 Apr 2017

Class 030 – 1 Jun – 29 Jun 2017

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Visual Information Management Course
(2 weeks) 24 students

Class 020 – 3 Apr -14 Apr 2017

Class 030 - 11 Sept - 22 Sept 2017

Advanced Electronic Journalism Course
(4 weeks) 12 students

Class 040 - Cancelled

Class 050 - 20 Sept - 18 Oct 2017

Joint Senior Public Affairs Course
(2 weeks) 16 students

Class 020 – 5 Jun – 16 Jun 2017

Class 030 - 31 Jul - 11 Aug 2017

Intermediate Photojournalism Course
(8 weeks) 18 students

Class 030 - 15 May - 19 Jul 2017

Class 040 - 24 Jul - 20 Sept 2017

Intermediate Public Affairs Specialist Course
(2 weeks) 24 students

Class 030 - 8 May - 19 May 2017

Class 040 - 17 Jul - 28 Jul 2017
Joint Contingency Public Affairs Course
(2 weeks) 16 students

Class 020 – 10 Jul – 21 Jul 2017

Public Affairs Qualification Course (PAQC)
(9 weeks) 60 students

Class 040 - 17 Jul - 20 Sept 2017

Joint Intermediate Public Affairs Course
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Class 010 – 10 Apr – 16 May 2017

Class 020 – 21 Aug – 28 Sep 2017

Additional information available at:
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Digital Multimedia Course
(7 weeks) 24 students

Class 030 – 19 Apr - 8 Jun 2017

Class 040 - 12 July - 30 Aug 2017
Intermediate Videography Course
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Class 040 - 27 Mar - 28 Apr 2017

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The amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) transits
the Arabian Sea March 5, 2017. The ship was in the U.S. 5th Fleet
area of operations to support maritime security operations
to reassure allies and partners, and preserve the freedom of
navigation and free flow of commerce in the region. (U.S. Navy
photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Devin M. Langer)

U.S. Navy Hospitalman Billy Gibson, attached to Naval Hospital
Pensacola, Florida, preforms a prophylaxis teeth cleaning at the
Continuing Promise 2017 (CP-17) medical site in Puerto Barrios,
Guatemala . (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist
2nd Class Shamira Purifoy)

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Todd Hughes checks the anti-ice detector during an intake inspection
on a Thunderbirds F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft at Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 24, 2017. The
Thunderbirds performed a flyover during the opening ceremonies of the Daytona 500 race Feb.
26. Hughes is a dedicated crew chief assigned to the team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt.
Christopher Boitz)

Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Pairoj Prasansai, right, a jungle survival training
instructor assigned to the Thai Reconnaissance Battalion, pours cobra blood into
the mouth of a U.S. Marine with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during
jungle survival training as part of Cobra Gold 2017, at Camp Banchan Krem,
Thailand, Feb. 17,2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd
Class Markus Castaneda)

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