Still and Motion Imagery Captioning Quality Check

First sentence contains who or what the image is of:
- Includes service, rank, first and last name, title and military unit for all featured person(s).
- Lists units from smallest to largest, if applicable.
- Does not identify people in the background.
- Provides the equipment name and model, name and ship hull number, or name of aircraft or vehicle and type of object (e.g., aircraft, ship, etc.) if a subject is an object.

First sentence contains the geographic location (where) including the name of the base, facility or organization, if applicable.
- Gives a region or general area if no city is provided.
- Provides ship name and where it is moored or underway, if applicable.
- States undisclosed locations in the metadata with an identifiable geographic region (e.g., Southwest Asia or U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility).
- Does not use "here" or "at sea" in place of location or region.

Subsequent sentences include background information that explains the purpose of the event, exercise or operation depicted in the image (why).

Includes definition of all acronyms.
- Does not use acronyms for terms used only once within the caption.
- Does not use apostrophes when using a plural acronym.

Credits photographer, including the following:
- Service affiliation.
- Rank.
- Full name.
- Nature of any manipulation.

Does not include names of U.S. citizens or service members, without written consent.

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