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Silent Drill Platoon, U.S. Marine Corp edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2023 at 11:48:14 (UTC)

Original – A U.S. Marine Corps C-130T Hercules aircraft with the Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, flies over Marines with the Silent Drill Platoon at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona.

Reason: stunning photo, FP on commons
Articles in which this image appears: United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon, Aviation photography
FP category for this image: Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air
Creator: Staff Sgt. Oscar L. Olive IV, U.S. Marine Corps

Support as nominator – Aviafanboi (talk) 11:48, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Promotional posed image that adds little EV to either article. Crop lower right too tight too. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:56, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Per Charles. Obviously posed for promo pitch. Lacks EV. – Sca (talk) 12:12, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
About the oppose rationales above: This is a ceremonial, show platoon [1], so posing and promoting is built into what they do and part of the EV. Bammesk (talk) 13:21, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
How does it inform the reader/viewer about the aircraft or the Marine Corps? Boring, IMO. -- Sca (talk) 13:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If that's your oppose rationale, then put it next to your vote! Bammesk (talk) 13:30, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Given the uses, it's clearly being used to show off these platoons that exist for show. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.5% of all FPs.} 12:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 02:40, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 14:47, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose weird, distracting composition. Insufficient EV as well to justify FP. (t · c) buidhe 02:29, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:02, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]