(courtesy photo) Tom Webster, project officer for Navy Medicine Support Command’s Visual Information Directorate, audiovisual production specialist Emre Tufekcioglu and Walter Reed Army’s Medical Center’s Rodney Remson film at Arlington National Cemetery.

The directorate, which is a tenant command on the Bethesda campus, competed against Defense Department media outlets from across the globe to compete for a Visual Information Production award. They succeeded with their Veterans’ Day 2006 Tribute music video, ‘‘Some Gave All.”

The music video was a tribute to the men and women who served and are serving in the Armed Forces, and features the Billy Ray Cyrus song ‘‘Some Gave All.” It was the first joint creative venture between visual information departments at Bethesda and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Prior to competing at the Defense Department-level the Visual Information Directorate won four Navy-level Visual Information Production Awards. First place winners in the Navy awards are then sent to the Defense Department-level to compete against the other services.

Tom Webster, project officer for Navy Medicine Support Command’s Visual Information Directorate, said the team is known around the fleet as a leader in visual media production. Requests and ideas for projects come from all around the world and, as long as it deals with Navy Medicine, ‘‘we can support anyone.

‘‘We support a lot of requests both domestically and internationally,” Webster said. ‘‘We’ve received requests all the way from Afghanistan.”

‘‘We do everything from videos to graphic arts to medical photography,” said Sherry White, senior project officer in Bethesda’s Visual Information Directorate. ‘‘We also do training, historical and marketing productions.”

The second Navy award-winning project was a marketing piece for the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity, White said. The ophthalmic support activity provide products and designs for ballistic eyewear used in combat, she said. She said they were trying to market their services, because they provide an important service to men and women in uniform.

There are multiple pieces to the puzzle on a production project, from the scripting to the location, White said. Once a project idea is submitted, Navy Medicine Support Command Visual Information Directorate officials determine whether it can be produced or not.

‘‘A lot of logistics and planning are involved in a project. We provide the funding for the majority of our productions, so everything is reviewed carefully,” White said. ‘‘Right now we’re working on some new programs and projects that are very exciting and will be very helpful to Navy Medicine.”

Webster said Visual Information’s productions create entertaining pieces but, more importantly, they create educational videos to strengthen the force.

‘‘It’s rewarding because we’re helping Navy Medicine to improve programs and educate our Sailors and Marines,” Webster said.