you should modify your original post so it doesnt say he failed out so its not the first thing people read. The portrait subject is an old friend and did me a big favor helping me set up this shoot. I am a big supporter of the armed forces and do shoots like this to show my support and appreciation. Being a "civilian" (former firefighter and have numerous family members in the military), I may not understand all military politics, but its still upsetting to see an angry thread like this when all he did was help me out to do a shoot. He is a really great standup guy Ive known since college. For example, he helped set up the portrait session in Meridian so that all of his classmates in school could get a portrait. I want to say that I appreciate your service to our country and I am happy to do more portraits at other bases in the future. Don't throw a guy under the bus before you have your facts straight. Its not fair to him. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I just wanted to set the story straight.
Thank you,
Douglas
(the photographer)
PS. I have googled analytics on my blog that showed significant traffic coming from this blog post so I set up an account to respond. No troll here.