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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew and paramedics assist a woman onto a gurney at the Coast Guard base in Mobile, Ala., on Sept. 1, 2005. Critically ill patients from a National Guard field hospital in Biloxi, Miss., are being transported to the Coast Guard base and transferred to local emergency medical services.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew and paramedics assist a woman onto a gurney.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew and paramedics assist a woman onto a gurney at the Coast Guard base in Mobile, Ala., on Sept. 1, 2005. Critically ill patients from a National Guard field hospital in Biloxi, Miss., are being transported to the Coast Guard base and transferred to local emergency medical services.

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