ALAN S. BROWN is a major in the U.S. Army and was deployed to southern Iraq for a year-long tour in 2010-2011, where he served as a public affairs officer with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Before going to Iraq, Brown taught freshman composition and literature at the United States Military Academy at West Point for three years. During his 14-year military career, Brown has been stationed in Germany, South Korea and across the United States, with no shortage of subjects to fuel his amateur passion for snapping the shutter.