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The US Army - Loading up[edit]

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Original – U.S. Army and Iraqi army soldiers board a Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter during a static loading exercise in Iraq, 2009.
Reason
There is EV here, there is quality here, there is nice shot and frame her and there is everything for a FP here. Anything more?
Articles in which this image appears
Combined operations, 82nd Airborne Division, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Military
Creator
The US army
@J Milburn: and @Yann:..Its now lead pic in Combined operations.. - The Herald (here I am) 04:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - This is part of history. The photo is unusually clear, the composition is good. CorinneSD (talk) 01:59, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Corinne. Historical EV for Iraq War & long U.S. involvement. Sca (talk) 16:57, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's not the case right now. Why this image? Why in these articles? 24.222.214.125 (talk) 20:58, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • What do you mean it's not the case right now? That it isn't part of history yet? I'm undecided about how well it illustrates the articles, but as a standalone photo, it's undeniably historically valuable as documenting an event / location / point in time, no matter how recently it was taken. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 13:13, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        • I mean as it's used right now it lacks that EV. There's nothing that shows why this place, exercise, unit etc. have the kind of EV that we look for usually; nor is there a broad non-specific EV that this image fulfills (e.g. as an example of combined ooperations). 24.222.214.125 (talk) 16:11, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as per JM. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 01:52, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Alchemist-hp:..What more EV can you ask for a lead image. It rightly depicts one of yhe Combined operations by US and Iraq.  - The Herald (here I am) 13:27, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
We don't solely judge EV by where an image is placed in an article. There are plenty of reasons we may be unconvinced that this is a particularly stellar illustration of the concept of a combined operation. J Milburn (talk) 17:22, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I agree with those above, nice picture but I can't quite see the EV. Is it to illustrate combined operations? If that is the goal there is surely a better picture then the backs of two slightly different coloured uniforms. Mattximus (talk) 19:13, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Mattximus - nice enough picture though, even if not an FP level one... gazhiley 10:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support EV, focused on historic topic. __ Alborzagros (talk) 10:47, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - To be of encyclopedic value, the photo does not have to illustrate combined operations. It could illustrate "a static loading exercise" during an important period in U.S. and Iraqi history. CorinneSD (talk) 19:01, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Military exercise may play role.. - The Herald (here I am) 16:59, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted -- - The Herald (here I am) 15:20, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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