Balad is a field combat hosiptal...they will stablize you and ship you out right away.....hubby was at LSA Anaconda for 15mos...
Yes, I also have first hand experience with LSAA.
I'm perhaps trying to be to precise. Not 100 percent of those sent to Balad hospital are evac'd to Germany, but most are.
Some are sent back to their units. Not many.
A fabulous article about the quality of care given to our wounded in Iraq.
http://community.nursingspectrum.com/MagazineArticles/article.cfm?AID=14773
With amazing speed and precision, military nurses help airlift critically injured soldiers out of Iraq. Even more amazing — not one critical patient’s life has been lost in flight.
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq — As happens many nights here at the Air Force Theater Hospital and nearby contingency aeromedical staging facility (CASF), the number of wounded and ill service members scheduled for a 2:00 AM medical flight to Germany changed a few hours before takeoff.
Four Marines who were injured when an improvised explosive device struck their military vehicle were flown by helicopter to the hospital, which is located on a former Iraqi air base now occupied by both the U.S. Air Force and Army.
Three of the Marines sustained serious head injuries and were intubated. The fourth Marine was conscious and had shrapnel wounds on the right side of his face and burn and shrapnel wounds on his hands and arms. All four were taken to ICU #1, one of many small patient units in this sprawling tent field hospital.
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