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Iraq War Medicine
DECEMBER 2006
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Medevac Medicine
Photograph by James Nachtwey
Fighting for life, medic Pablo Garza pumps the chest of a dying Iraqi soldier. Shot in the head, the Iraqi is being flown to a U.S. Army hospital in the cramped cabin of a Black Hawk helicopter. Garza's unit, one of several medevac—or air ambulance—companies based in Iraq, runs rescue missions around the clock. "It's a rush," says Garza. "I concentrate on giving the patient all the help I can. I try not to think of the outcome."
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