Kelly Timney
Bio
Kelly Timney, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps with 12 years in the United States military, four with the U.S. Air Force and over eight as combat camera in the Marine Corps.
Selected to represent the Marine Corps in the competitive and journalistically esteemed Military Visual Journalism program, with a graduation date of May 20, 2021.
Her next assignment is to the Defense Media Activity on Ft. George G. Meade, MD.
She has had the opportunity of serving the Nation in various locations around the globe from Morocco, Romania, Israel, Latvia and Bulgaria. She also served as a forensic photographer with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and had the honor of assisting recovery operations in Vietnam, Laos, and the Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal).
As an Airman in Okinawa, Japan she provided support for the base consisting of 61 various DoD agencies and entities comprised of more than 24k personnel, and in Minot AFB in North Dakota she provided support for dual wings on the installation as base public affairs photographer.
In her first assignment as a photographer in the Corps to 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, she deployed overseas with and supported training evolutions with combat arms units. Leaving Lejeune, she worked as a photographer for the prestigious and unique DPAA on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. Selected by SgtMaj. Ronald L. Green (18th SMMC) to hold the billet as the personal photographer of the SMMC attached to the administrative team, reestablishing the photographer’s billet after a vacancy and concluded the assignment by being an integral part of the transition for the incoming 19th SMMC, Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black. Upon her selection for E-6/SSgt she was assigned to the HQMC Communications Directorate’s Pentagon office and her instrumental leadership as Studio Chief resulted in revising standards of operation at the sole Marine Corps photo studio for the Pentagon.
One of her photographs won second place in the News Photo category of the Military Visual Awards in 2017.