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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 4165404" data-attributes="member: 45785"><p>I started in the USAF as an aircraft mechanic. One of my TSgts had an incident that left him barely hanging from a truck back in his younger days. Just stripped the skin back half an inch or so... They stitched it up, and it healed fine, but he had a very obvious scar, when I got there in February of 1974. After I retrained into still photography, I was working at the base photo lab awaiting my slot in the tech school. Went out on a photo shoot with the line chief. The photos were all staged, but the Chief forgot to take his wedding band off. And I had one really good photo of his hand pointing at something with that hand. Which got published in the base paper. He almost lost his job. I almost lost my job. The guy who chose that photo to put in the paper almost lost his job. The only thing that save us was that it was a staged photo. No real maintenance was being done. Taught me to be VERY careful of what I took photos of. And that they took that sort of thing very seriously.</p></blockquote><p></p>