Gallery: Veteran photographer picks 'powerful' military photos of 2016

Action. Grief. Triumph. Reflection.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this could take a bit. So let's skip ahead: A blog post hosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University highlighting "powerful military photos" from the past year features these 20 images curated from Defense Department sources by Blake Stilwell, a veteran Air Force photographer with two graduate degrees from the program: 

The list is courtesy of Communications@Syracuse, the

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