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KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 10, 2009 – Outside Forward Operating Base Blessing here, combat medics serving with 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, spend every morning combing through a crowd of sick or injured Afghans desperate for medical attention. Army Spc. Danielle Lafoille places a bandage on a boy at Forward Operating Base Blessing, Afghanistan, April 7, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew C. Moeller  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “This is their [emergency room],” Army Spc. Danielle Lafoille of Manistique, Mich., said. “If something happens, this is where they are going to come.” Since arriving at Blessing...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Nov. 21, 2008 – Soldiers with a battalion of the 101st Airborne Division have rebuilt an aid station allowing them to improve care in a critical part of Afghanistan. Located in a highly violent area of Afghanistan, Combat Outpost Zirok is near a route insurgents use to enter the country from Pakistan, making a large and organized aid station a necessity. The outpost’s aid station originally was housed in a narrow metal shipping container. It was difficult to keep things organized, and if a patient required more than one medic, it was nearly impossible to move around....

PATROL BASE DRAGON — Children play. They get dirty, swim in canals and climb up trees; risk is part of the game. When accidents happen, it is nice to have a place to go for cuts, scrapes and serious injuries. For the Iraqi children who live in the countryside just yards from Patrol Base Dragon, near the Euphrates River, that place is the Battalion Aid Station run by Capt. Christopher “Kit” Dominguez, a native of Grand Junction, Colo., and physician’s assistant for Company C, 210th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), out of Fort...

'Charlie Med' Cures Ailing Aid Station Soldiers transform sleeping quarters into medical station. By U.S. Army Pfc. Melissa M. Escobar 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment JALALABAD AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, March 20, 2007 -- When the first six soldiers from the medical team with C Company, 710th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Task Force Spartan, touched down here, they inherited a bigger and better aid station, but one that was in need of some improvement. "It was neat to have a vision in my head about how I wanted it to look and then watch it become real," Army...

The clinic serves as a battalion aid station and also provides lab, dental, x-ray and trauma services. TAJI, Iraq, Aug. 3, 2005 — "You never know what is going to roll up to the door," said U.S. Army Capt. Jacqueline L. Graul, brigade nurse for 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division. Graul is part of the staff at "Cobra" Clinic, run by C Company, 125th Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, which provides for the medical needs of soldiers at Camp Taji. "You don't get a second chance with a real casualty. All your training is on the line."...