They've done a great job giving me various booster shots. ;-)
Actually, they saved a very good friend of mine's life early this year. Yes, they really do incredible things there.
Hey, I’m due for my next anthrax shot the same day I leave...
There’s a surprisingly decent story about the Balad trauma hospital here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15605343
Not many people knew about it until that NBC reporter (name??) was injured while an embed and spent several days being stabilized there. Then (of course) there were a ton of stories about the lifesaving workk being done day-in and day-out at Balad.
I was very familiar with it (and sadly to the day’s injury trends) because my conex was close to it and directly under the helicopter flight path into the facility. When the occasional Pavelow (??? bigger than a Blackhawk) came in 50 feet above our heads I thought for sure we were gonna’ get sucked-up into the rotors, conex and all.