Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Platoon Sergeant

Platoon Sergeant

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Original – A Platoon Sergeant (correct U.S. Marine Corps term) at the Officer Candidate School aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., dedicated to training, educating, evaluating and screening the many candidates who go through the course and turning them into Marine leaders.

Reason: A powerful (and quite scary) image.
Articles in which this image appears: Platoon Sergeant, Officer Candidates School (United States Marine Corps), Drill Instructor
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator: United States Marine Corps

Support as nominator --Theparties (talk) 10:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Reminds me of Full Metal Jacket. JJARichardson (talk) 20:18, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I love how the ~~drill~~ Platoon Sargent is named angel, it seems wonderfully ironic. That being said, as well as the facial expressions are captured, I can't get over what I feel are wonky shadows enough to support. Sᴠᴇɴ Mᴀɴɢᴜᴀʀᴅ Wha? 22:19, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's track lighting down the middle of the room, that's going to cause some weird shadows, but they're inherent to the scene's location. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:19, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Useful. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:03, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Although, for EV, I wonder if that's how drill instructors actually are, or just how they are portrayed in movies. There are some wonky shadows but I like how they create anonymity in the drill instructor. Mattximus (talk) 21:49, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support, amazing facial expressions. --CyberXRef^☎ 06:29, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: People/Military might be a more appropriate category. JJARichardson (talk) 18:40, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Per CyberXRef...-Godot13 (talk) 07:12, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Concerned this is a fiction. Some years ago I went through Officer Candidate School (in polite Canada mind you) and if my Sergeant Major had done that to me the outcome might have been rather tragic for his career and possibly his face. Saffron Blaze (talk) 17:53, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- It would still be useful for a section of the article discussing the popular image of drill instructors, n'est pas? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:29, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Indeed it would. Saffron Blaze (talk) 02:16, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment- The file is wrongly named. This is not an image of "a drill instructor". This is an image of a situation, an activity, a process or some such. It is essentially an image of an interaction between two people, not an image of a person doing a job. The file needs to be renamed and re-captioned with a name that reflects the activity that is taking place in the picture. The title of the file needs a verb such as "training", "teaching", "verbally abusing", "instructing", "testing" or some such to reflect what is taking place. The present caption indicates that what is happening here is an essential to the job of drill instructor. The caption treats the image as if it was a very neutral picture, and it isn't. Amandajm (talk) 11:57, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- You can propose a move on Commons. There is a little arrow at the top-right of the screen, which will present a drop down menu. That being said, I generally prefer titles to be descriptive and neutral, so I'd avoid "verbally abusing". Testing, training, etc. would work much better. Sadly, the source link seems to be down, so we can't get more info, maybe the US Army's original title. Does anyone know of an archived version? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:45, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Drill instructor at the Officer Candidate School.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:47, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]