Online US Army/Navy Photographic School manuals in PDF

Kino · Sep 21, 2019

BrianShaw · Sep 21, 2019

Thanks! I’m familiar with the various versions of the Navy materials but never looked up to see what Army had to offer. This is a great aid!

Kino · Sep 21, 2019

At Fort Jackson, SC I took after hours classes with a soon to retire Sergent Major from the Signal Corps who taught darkroom for fun to interested soldiers.

Man I wish I could remember HALF of what that man talked about! He was amazing.

wiltw · Sep 21, 2019

Kino said:
Though these were interesting... and free.

US Army photography course Printing Color Negatives SS0572

So I looked at this document, and I see this on the first pages

"US ARMY STILL PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALIST MOS 84B SKILL LEVEL 1 AUTHORSHIP RESPONSIBILITY: SSG Pamela Anderson 560th Signal Battalion Lowry AFB, Colorado DSN (AUTOVON): 926-2521 COMMERCIAL: (303) 676-2522 PRINTING COLOR NEGATIVES (Developmental Date: 30 September 1987)"

The Baywatch girl would have been 20 years old at the time of publication, and she didn't appear in Playboy until 1990 and started appearing on TV until 1991
. D'y think...?!

GRHazelton · Sep 21, 2019

Somewhere I have a copy of an old Navy Photographer's Mate manual. It was really informative; IIRC my Father bought it for both of us. It dated perhaps to WWII, I remember an action sequence taken with a 4x5 Speed Graphic of a propeller fighter botching a carrier landing and going overboard. Must have been a film pack, no one could have switched film holders that fast! I hope I find it one day....

pentaxuser · Sep 21, 2019

wiltw said:
So I looked at this document, and I see this on the first pages

"US ARMY STILL PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALIST MOS 84B SKILL LEVEL 1 AUTHORSHIP RESPONSIBILITY: SSG Pamela Anderson 560th Signal Battalion Lowry AFB, Colorado DSN (AUTOVON): 926-2521 COMMERCIAL: (303) 676-2522 PRINTING COLOR NEGATIVES (Developmental Date: 30 September 1987)"

The Baywatch girl would have been 20 years old at the time of publication, and she didn't appear in Playboy until 1990 and started appearing on TV until 1991
. D'y think...?!

It's like the joke about the General shaking hands with ex Army photographic school personnel at a re-union. He notices that one guy has a constant faraway look on his face the whole evening. He assumes it is PTSD and asks what conflict caused it and is told it was half an hour with the above SSG in the darkroom.

I can see the scene now in a re-make of Hot Shots. I really miss the likes of Leslie Nielsen and Lloyd Bridges. . Nobody can make those kind of films any more

pentaxuser

BrianShaw · Sep 21, 2019

GRHazelton said:
Somewhere I have a copy of an old Navy Photographer's Mate manual. It was really informative; IIRC my Father bought it for both of us. It dated perhaps to WWII, I remember an action sequence taken with a 4x5 Speed Graphic of a propeller fighter botching a carrier landing and going overboard. Must have been a film pack, no one could have switched film holders that fast! I hope I find it one day....

I have a 1966 edition. The best instructional manual for speed graphic and view camera I ever read. And the rest of the content is great too.

MattKing · Sep 21, 2019

wiltw said:
So I looked at this document, and I see this on the first pages

"US ARMY STILL PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALIST MOS 84B SKILL LEVEL 1 AUTHORSHIP RESPONSIBILITY: SSG Pamela Anderson 560th Signal Battalion Lowry AFB, Colorado DSN (AUTOVON): 926-2521 COMMERCIAL: (303) 676-2522 PRINTING COLOR NEGATIVES (Developmental Date: 30 September 1987)"

The Baywatch girl would have been 20 years old at the time of publication, and she didn't appear in Playboy until 1990 and started appearing on TV until 1991
. D'y think...?!

Somehow I doubt that the young Canadian Pamela Anderson would have been enlisted at 20 in the US army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Anderson

wiltw · Sep 22, 2019

MattKing said:
Somehow I doubt that the young Canadian Pamela Anderson would have been enlisted at 20 in the US army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Anderson

Well, while it might be less likely that a non-citizen enlists, but since the Revolutionary War, legal permanent residents are eligible to enlist in the military. Roughly 35,000 non-citizens are serving in active duty military and about 8,000 join each year. 24,000 noncitizens were on active duty in 2012, with 5,000 legal permanent residents (LPRs) enlisted into the U.S. military force each year. Laws designed to give more protection to those who served in the military are spottily enforced. A GAO report found that veterans who never gained U.S. citizenship didn't consistently get consideration for their service in the face of possible deportation. Among the findings: While the military has enlisted more than 44,000 non-citizens since 2013, the number of them applying for and receiving U.S. citizenship has fallen. Some current issues in immigration status involves Mexican nationals who had served in the US military in the Middle East with distinction. Over a five-year period ending in 2018, America deported 250 noncitizen veterans, the agency found.

A valid question to raise about Pam Anderson in the Army and writing a tech manual would be the liklihood that she enlisted at 18 and attained the rank of Staff Sargeant by 20...particularly hard to give given that the rank E-6 requires 84 Months Time-in-service

StanMac · Sep 22, 2019

wiltw said:
. . . . . A GAO report found that veterans who never gained U.S. citizenship didn't consistently get consideration for their service in the face of possible deportation. Among the findings: While the military has enlisted more than 44,000 non-citizens since 2013, the number of them applying for and receiving U.S. citizenship has fallen. Some current issues in immigration status involves Mexican nationals who had served in the US military in the Middle East with distinction. Over a five-year period ending in 2018, America deported 250 noncitizen veterans, the agency found. . . .

All politics aside, this is an absolutely shameful behavior on the part of my country.

Stan

Alan Edward Klein · Sep 22, 2019

wiltw said:
Well, while it might be less likely that a non-citizen enlists, but since the Revolutionary War, legal permanent residents are eligible to enlist in the military. Roughly 35,000 non-citizens are serving in active duty military and about 8,000 join each year. 24,000 noncitizens were on active duty in 2012, with 5,000 legal permanent residents (LPRs) enlisted into the U.S. military force each year. Laws designed to give more protection to those who served in the military are spottily enforced. A GAO report found that veterans who never gained U.S. citizenship didn't consistently get consideration for their service in the face of possible deportation. Among the findings: While the military has enlisted more than 44,000 non-citizens since 2013, the number of them applying for and receiving U.S. citizenship has fallen. Some current issues in immigration status involves Mexican nationals who had served in the US military in the Middle East with distinction. Over a five-year period ending in 2018, America deported 250 noncitizen veterans, the agency found.

A valid question to raise about Pam Anderson in the Army and writing a tech manual would be the liklihood that she enlisted at 18 and attained the rank of Staff Sargeant by 20...particularly hard to give given that the rank E-6 requires 84 Months Time-in-service

What general wouldn't want to promote her?

Alan Edward Klein · Sep 22, 2019

StanMac said:
All politics aside, this is an absolutely shameful behavior on the part of my country.

Stan

As a natural-born US citizen-veteran, I agree. If they qualify, veterans should be first in line for getting approved. Who better would make a great citizen?

Kino · Sep 22, 2019

StanMac said:
All politics aside, this is an absolutely shameful behavior on the part of my country.

Stan

Agreed. Just what the HELL are they thinking?

CMoore · Oct 11, 2019

Great links.
I used similar Navy Sources to learn the basics of Electricity/Electronics.
Also, if still available, nothing beats those old (military) films circa 1950-1970 for learning this "Stuff".

alentine · Nov 14, 2019

Thanks indeed Kino.

jamesaz · Nov 16, 2019

I still have my course books from USASCS 84-B20, Ft. Monmouth, N.J. training in 1971. It's all pretty basic as the course only went for maybe 12 weeks. We were issued speed graphic kits with 5" lens at the start and used them for the entire class. About halfway through we got graflex xl's and later topcon 35mm's. There was B/W darkroom for us to print in and there was e-3 shooting towards week 9 or 10. Film issue was tightly controlled. 120 trix, plus-x in 35mm and GAF sheet film. Also kodak film packs, which we had to learn how to "rob" and tray process. Most film processing was done by the guys learning to be lab techs. I don't remember shooting any color negative film there and I haven't referred to those manuals in a very long time.

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