The Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, acronym DVIDS, is an American media and public relations operation run by the Defense Media Activity (Defense Media Activity), on behalf of the Department of Defense. The operation supports all branches of the U.S. military and its coalition partners serving Worldwide.
DVIDS receives public affairs and combat camera content and live video feeds from a network of portable Ku-band satellite transmitters, located in various places around the world, as well as in a hub in Atlanta, Georgia. DVIDS provides to the media and the public videos, photographs and print products, including publications, as well as interviews with service members, commanders and non-military experts. DVIDS currently uses Aspera software for its data and imagery transmission and storage needs.
The Director of DVIDS Operations is Logistics officer Major Scott M. Betts.
The Third Army has awarded the contract for the provision of DVIDS services to Encompass Digital Media, Inc.,
i need help i cant leave i cant breathe. i see my way out but
I'm in too deep to care. emotionless, i feel myself about to break.
self-destruction, self corruption, this life i know, this life i hate.
with each passing day my outlets slip away. i believe the lies and
i dig myself in deeper. i play a daily game of tug a war between
what's in my heart and what's on my mind, not weighing circumstances,
passing blindly by my chances knowing some day i might die. in the
silence of my nightmare noone else can hear me scream, noone else knows
what i need, noone else believes, i could die and not care. i need
something to set me free. reflections from my past that seem so unreal
to me, I'm out of touch i can no longer feel me, my heart is sick and
my mind is reeling. don't know myself, don't know why i still don't care
. I'm the only one that's paying, and I'm the only one that's playing.
the more i struggle the more i lose. i dig myself in deeper and still
don't care then the moment comes when you reach for my heart, i know