[Kathy in Alaska]

030411-N-0728B-002 Southern Iraq (Apr. 11, 2003) -- Lt. Dallas Braham from New Orleans, La., monitors an Iraqi woman at Fleet Hospital Three’s (FH-3) Intensive Care Unit following surgery for a gunshot wound. The woman conveyed her story of being injured in a firefight where she was used as a human shield by Iraqi forces. Representing Coalition Forces’ strong commitment to the Iraqi people, FH-3 personnel have conducted almost 200 surgical procedures in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Al Bloom. (RELEASED)

[Kathy in Alaska]

030414-N-0728B-002 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Apr. 14, 2003) -- Ensign Jill Skeet from Williamsburg, Kan., administers pain medication to an unidentified Iraqi woman who arrived in Fleet Hospital Three’s (FH-3) Casualty Receiving room with a gunshot wound. FH-3 staff have seen more than 500 patients and conducted more than 280 surgical procedures since constructing the Navy’s first Expeditionary Medical Facility in a combat zone and seeing their first patient April 1. FH-3’s surgical capabilities range from Ear, Nose and Throat and Neurosurgery to Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, as the only Echelon Three hospital currently in Iraq. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Al Bloom. (RELEASED)

030414-N-0728B-004 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Apr. 14, 2003) -- An unidentified Iraqi woman (foreground) who arrived in Fleet Hospital Three’s (FH-3) Casualty Receiving room with an ankle injury, waits to be seen by FH-3 staff providing care to another Iraqi citizen with more immediate needs. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Al Bloom. (RELEASED)