Marine Matt Piano, 23, lies wounded in an airplane at Balad Air Base in Iraq, 50 miles north of Baghdad.
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U.S. Army Reservist and Registered Nurse Marja Amador, 25, wipes blood from the face of a wounded soldier in the emergency room of the hospital at Balad Air Base.
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A U.S. soldier waits to give blood as a wounded comrade on a stretcher receives treatment in the emergency room of the hospital at Balad Air Base.
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Wounded U.S. soldiers are transported from the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, CASF, via a school bus to a plane.
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First Sgt. Robert Stratton, 35, visits with an injured fellow soldier in Balad on Nov. 15, 2004. Stratton's supply mission was mortared on its way north. Both soldiers are with the National Guard out of Ohio.
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U.S. military surgeons meet with a wounded soldier as he gets off the helicopter outside of the emergency room of the hospital at Balad Air Base.
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Lance Cpl. Kyle Blumenstock, 19, sits in the emergency room of the Balad Hospital. Blumenstock received shrapnel wounds to his face and had both of his eardrums blown out.
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Injured U.S. soldiers lie on stretchers in the airplane en route to Germany.
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With his family beside him, wounded Lance Cpl. W.C. Ross lies in the portable intensive care unit of an airplane en route to Germany from Balad.
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U.S. military personnel help load injured soldiers onto a cargo plane en route to Germany.
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Wounded U.S. soldiers are transported from the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, CASF, via a school bus to a plane headed to Germany.
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A U.S. military surgeon sleeps while watching a football game at the hospital at the Balad Air Base.
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