01 of 17A broadcast control suite at the Pentagon Channel

02 of 17‘Mac’ prepares on set

03 of 17Petty officer Lizandra Murray, primary anchor for ‘Around the Services’

04 of 17Executive producer for news David Scott Howe

05 of 17Mel Russell, taking care of business

06 of 17Didactic decoration on a Pentagon Channel desk

07 of 17Access is granted and Monocle is able to report from the inside

08 of 17Old-school security measures are being fazed out

09 of 17A Pentagon corridor displaying the flags of the National Guard

10 of 17Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defence

11 of 17Petty officer Andrew Wiskow at the Media Center in Riverside

12 of 17Jessie Balos, broadcast engineer in the ‘server farm’

13 of 17Sergeant Antonio Villari with his deployable broadcast units

14 of 17The world surveys AFN executive director Jeffrey White from his desk

15 of 17The automated tape and image archive at the Defense Media Center, Riverside

16 of 17Send and receive: the ‘satellite farm’ in Riverside

17 of 17AFN production offices bathe in Californian sun