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Capt. Sayed Ali, from Long Island, N.Y., the surgeon assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, and Pfc. Israel Ruiz, a medic in Troop A, 3-1 Cav. Regt., examine an Iraqi cabdriver, who was injured by an insurgent improvised explosive device, at Patrol Base Assassin Jan. 16. Photo by Spc. Ben Hutto, 3rd HBCT, 3rd Inf. Div. FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER -- Ahmed’s whole body shook as Capt. Sayed Ali, from Long Island, N.Y., the surgeon assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, examined him. Ahmed, a 24-year-old cab driver, was driving his cab when an insurgent roadside...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq, Jan. 9, 2008 – Medics from 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, and 489th Civil Affairs Battalion, a reserve unit from Knoxville, Tenn., attached to 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, conducted a medical operation in Tameem, southeast of Baghdad, Jan. 5. An Iraqi policeman with 3rd Brigade, 1st National Police Division, distributes water supplied by 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, to a citizen of Tameem, a village southeast of Baghdad, Jan. 5, 2008. Photo by Spc. Ben Hutto, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Iraq’s 3rd Brigade, 1st National Police Division, provided security for...

VICTORY BASE COMPLEX, Iraq, Aug. 27, 2007 — Since the beginning of the war Americans have provided basic medical care to Iraqis, but more and more Iraqi medics are treating their own countrymen. Members of Task Force Vigilant, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y., coordinated with Iraqi medics and doctors to conduct a combined medical engagement outside Victory Base Complex, Aug. 24 "Today is a good day to show the Iraqi people we can help them. It is my job to help them and I am glad that I am able to." Dr. Zetad...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Foreign medics freed from a Libyan jail were tortured into confessing they deliberately infected hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said in remarks broadcast on Thursday. The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were freed on July 24 after a deal between Tripoli and the European Union, having spent eight years in jail. The lawyer of the Palestinian doctor told Reuters on Tuesday the doctor was tortured into confessing he deliberately infected the children and that he planned to a complain to a U.N. human rights panel. Gaddafi's son...

U.S. Army combat medics, Spc. Aimee Collver (foreground) and Spc. Vanessa Bolognese (background), both with the 25th Infantry Division’s 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Personal Security Detachment, help pull security during a mission in Amerli, Iraq, July 11, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Mike Alberts Female Combat Medics Fight Every Day, Earn Respect Missions find success with support of dedicated female soldiers. By Spc. Mike Alberts 3rd Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug. 1, 2007 — Temperatures exceeded 115 degrees during the five-hour mission in Amerli that day. More than 50 soldiers were on site and...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday on a trip to deepen relations after helping to resolve a diplomatic standoff that hurt the oil exporter's ties with the West. Libyan officials said the two countries would sign an accord on cooperation on a military-industrial partnership and another to activate what they called a previous agreement on cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Sarkozy, who met Gaddafi in a tent in the compound of his Tripoli residence, has said he wants to help Libya return to the "concert of nations" after it...

1st Lt. Terri Gurrola, medic in Company C, 203rd Forward Support Battalion, casts the leg of Hussein, a 15-year-old Iraqi boy, April 9, at Forward Operating Base Hammer, Iraq. Hussein lost his leg in an improvised explosive device incident four years ago. Photo courtesy of 203rd Brigade Support Battalion Medics Bring Hope to Iraqi boy Soldiers fit 15-year-old for new prosthetic leg. By Sgt. Natalie Rostek 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq, April 17, 2007 — Medics from Company C, 203rd Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, gave...

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007 – The Armed Services YMCA paid tribute to military medics and corpsmen here last night during its first Angels of the Battlefield awards dinner. Recipients of the Armed Services YMCA Angels of the Battlefield award pose for a photo with Marine Gen. James T. Conway (far right), commandant of the Marine Corps, and Eugene E. Habiger (far left), chairman of the Armed Services YMCA. The Armed Services YMCA honored military medics and corpsmen in Washington on March 7 during its Angels of the Battlefield awards dinner. Photo by Steven Donald Smith  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

Paratroopers Trade Shop Tools for Security Duty Mechanics, cooks, medics keep watch for VIPs, dignitaries. By Sgt. Timothy Dinneen Regional Command-East Public Affairs CHARIKAR, Afghanistan, March 5, 2007 -- Paratroopers that once spent their days making sure Humvees were ready for battle as mechanics at Fort Bragg, N.C., have exchanged their shop tools for M-4s and are now the driving force outside the wire as part of Task Force Gladius’ personal security detachment. "I trained with them and know what they can do, and they can do their jobs,"Army Cpl. Timothy Cozelos Mechanics, cooks, medics and other 82nd Airborne...

Staff Sgt. Jonathon Cagle comforts his daughter, Skylar, Jan. 17 before leaving for Afghanistan from Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Sergeant Cagle, a biomedical equipment repair technician assigned to the 60th Medical Support Squadron, is one of more than 100 Airmen from the 60th Medical Group who have deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, to staff the Air Force Theater Hospital there. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jim Spellman) TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNEWS)  -- Approximately 100 Airmen from the 60th Medical Group at David Grant Medical Center deployed in January to the largest military hospital in Afghanistan. The 455th Expeditionary...

Female Medics Earn Respect from Afghan Army Afghan soldiers now trust these women with their lives. By 1st Lt. Amanda Straub 41st Brigade Combat Team GARDEZ, Afghanistan, Jan. 30, 2007 -- Oregon Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Jo Turner and Spc. Cheryl Ivanov have found a niche in a “Good Ol' Boys' Club” while serving in Afghanistan. "They stared and stared at first. Then they saw us sleep on the ground like they did and eat their food like they did." Spc. Cheryl Ivanov, combat medic Turner, from Springfield, Ore., and Ivanov, from Coos Bay, are female combat medics...

CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait, Jan. 14, 2007 – Soldiers throughout history have marched into battle fortified by the prayers of their spiritual leaders. But the healers who care for those soldiers when they fall got a special blessing here Jan. 12 as they prepare to move with their 82nd Airborne Division into Iraq. The 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team held a service here to bless the brigade's medical personnel before they deploy. The 2nd BCT is expected to deploy into Baghdad soon to help reclaim neighborhoods controlled by insurgents. Paratroopers from the 2nd BCT's 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute...

Spc. Adam DeCap (from left), Sgt. Scott Meyers, and Sgt. 1st Class Brian Meade saved four Iraqis with their quick actions. CAMP CORREGIDOR -- The fast actions of medics in the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment helped save the lives of three Iraqi children and their grandfather after mortar attacks by insurgent attacks. The aid station medics received the family and provided medical care until the four casualties could be transported for further treatment. Sgt. 1st Class Brian W. Meade, of Elkhorn City, Ky., the medical platoon sergeant for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, was on duty when the casualties arrived....

BAGHDAD, Dec. 26, 2006 – It was a scene straight from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” or maybe “Willard.” American soldiers walking through a dimly lit, underground command bunker once used by a brutal dictator, now filled with hundreds of rats. Throw in a snake or two, and you have the perfect setting for a horror movie. Rats devoured cases of military rations left in Saddam Hussein’s underground bunker outside Baghdad. The rats then used the boxes for nesting. U.S. Army photo by Maj. Bobby Hart  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. But it was not a movie. Soldiers...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq, Nov. 28, 2006 -- The medics of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, train hard to save the lives of any soldier, and sometimes that includes the lives of soldiers they work with on a daily basis. Army Pfc. Chris Llewellyn, a medic with the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, preps Spc. Clint Zeller for an intravenous injection at Forward Operating Base Loyalty, Iraq. Photo by Spc. Courtney Marulli, USA  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. These Army medics found out quickly they have little time to adjust from garrison to...

Iraqi Army field medic Sabah prepares to take the blood pressure of an Iraqi National Police officer. Photos by U.S. Navy Journalist 2nd Class John J. Pistone. BAGHDAD -- Life in Iraq is often without conveniences western cultures can take for granted. Even a simple visit to the doctor’s office for treatment or medicine can be an arduous task.For Iraqi policemen, making that trip can be even more painstaking because of the particular dangers and security threats associated with their jobs.Iraqi Army field medics, along with Coalition doctors, are now making house calls to Iraqi National Police units to alleviate...

CAMP TAJI – From battle wounds to bruises, military doctors are out in the local neighborhoods making a difference—one Iraqi at a time. As the Iraqi police provided security, Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, along with an Iraqi doctor and an Iraqi nurse, conducted a medical operation in Mushada community north of Baghdad. During the operation, medical staff saw more than 300 residents for a variety of ailments, and gave locals free pharmaceuticals to help curb whatever ailments the patients were experiencing. “This is the first MedOp I’ve been on since I’ve been stationed at...

BAGHDAD -- As Iraq slowly recovers from more than 30 years of bondage and dictatorship, honorable citizens, dedicated to changing the face of their nation, continue to step forward to serve their people. Two such Iraqis were chosen to complete a two-week internship with the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, after recently graduating from the Iraqi Army Service and Support Institute ‘s Basic Medic Course in Taji.The medics spent their time in the trauma center working 12-hour days, assisting Coalition forces with the care of patients suffering from gunshot wounds and other penetrating and blunt battlefield trauma.Iraqi Army Pvts....

Medics Provide Health Services to Villagers U.S. and Iraqi medics team up to conduct a community health outreach for the citizens of Hor al Bash, Iraq. By U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Joe Flores CAMP TAJI, Iraq. Aug. 28, 2006-- Under the blazing Iraqi sun, Iraqi army and U.S. Army soldiers from Multi-National Division - Baghdad fought the Middle East heat to conduct a community health outreach for the people of Hor al Bash.Soldiers of the 2nd Tank Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division, and 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, with the help...

By Sgt. 1st Class Joe Flores 4th Infantry DivisionCapt. Evan Jones, physician’s assistant, 4th Infantry Division, checks a local boy at a medical operation in Hor al-Bash on Sunday. Department of Defense photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Joe Flores, 4th ID. CAMP TAJI -- Under the blazing Iraqi sun, Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers fought the heat to conduct a community health outreach for the people of Hor al-Bash on Sunday.Soldiers of the 9th Iraqi Army Division and the U.S.' 4th Infantry Division, with the help of medics from the 414th Civil Affairs Battalion, joined together...