O’Hagan shared Doney’s image with Bustamante, and Lt. He shared this with Doney, who refined the image. “I found the images I wanted, and Frankensteined them all together in photoshop to make it look like the image I thought would be most interesting, to kind of capture the essence of the mission,” O’Hagan said. That balanced out the PJs jumping into the night, O’Hagan said. He made a loadmaster prominent in the shot to represent the aircrew. He used existing Air Force images, as well as the few photographs taken by the team during the actual Tamar Rescue. He also wanted the view out the back of the HC-130 with jumpers going out. He wanted an image representing the aircrew and operators, and also including the Tamar. He feels a connection with the military, which made him more interested in O’Hagan’s project, he explained.ĭoney, whose canvases sell for $1,000 to $15,000, agreed to do the work for the cost of his time and materials.įortunately, part of the process of nominating a subject for a National Guard Heritage painting, requires producing an image of what the finished painting might look like. His grandfather was a World War I doughboy, his uncle jumped into Holland with the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II, his father served in the Coast Guard during the Korean War, and his younger brother served in Iraq with the Illinois National Guard, Doney said.
“When a friend asks me a favor, I like to be able to do it,” Doney said. He realized, that if he wanted a Tamar painting, he would have to make it happen himself.įortunately, O’Hagan has a friend who is a painter: Doney, a former illustrator, skilled gallery painter, and art professor at County College of Morris. And there was a plan for another painting featuring the New York National Guard in the works, O’Hagan said. And another painting had been done featuring the Alaska Air National Guard’s rescue wing. There was already a Heritage Painting commemorating a 1979 rescue mission by the 106th. So, O’Hagan started the process of putting together a heritage painting proposal in 2018.īut the process of commissioning a heritage painting was not going to result in getting the Tamar mission on canvas that way, O’Hagan said.
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“Whatever you do here, you had skin in the game,” O’Hagan said. “For our unit it was such an extraordinarily complex rescue mission.”Īlmost every member of the 106th, based at Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach on eastern Long Island, played a role in that mission, he said. “I got excited about the prospect of capturing an image that would represent the mission,” O’Hagan said. O’Hagan said he thought that was a great idea.
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Mosher thought the mission would be a great National Guard heritage painting a series of artworks that commemorate National Guard history over the years, O’Hagan said. Brian Mosher, the 106th Operations Group superintendent, said Major Michael O’Hagan, the wing’s public affairs officer. The idea for a mission painting, first came to Chief Master Sgt. “It brings back all the excitement,” Bustamante added. “I think what sticks out most in my mind, is you look at the ship, and you see the guys out there,” Bustamante said about the picture. They performed emergency surgeries which kept the men alive for 30 hours, until they could be evacuated by a Portuguese helicopter to the Azores and then to a mainland burn center. Their mission was to board the Slovenian freighter Tamar-the lighted ship in the painting- 1,700 miles out in the Atlantic, and provide emergency medical care to two critically injured crewmen. It gives you a brief look back, and you go, ‘Whoa, I actually did that,’” he said.īustamante, was one of two loadmasters on board a 106th Rescue Wing HC-130 rescue aircraft which dropped five pararescue Airmen, called “PJ’s” and two Combat Rescue Officers over the dark North Atlantic on April 24, 2017. Jamie Bustamante, the helmeted figure in the painting.
Looking at the painting always results in a flood of memories, said New York Air National Guard 1st Lt. There a helmeted figure in camouflage looks the viewer in the eye with a glowing green night vision goggle stare. Further out, other parachutes drift down towards a ship ablaze with lights.īut the eye always goes to the left. Through an open aircraft rear door, the viewer sees figures with swim fins and parachutes, leaping out into the night sky towards water below. Doney, named “Tamar Rescue Mission,” has a lot going on. WESTHAMPTON BEACH, New York-The 36-inch by 48-inch oil painting by New Jersey artist Todd L.W.
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