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U.S. Air Force airmen unload a patient from a bus for transfer to the Air Force Theater Hospital during an aeromedical evacuation mission on Joint Base Balad, Iraq, April 17, 2010. The unit is expecting the average patient load to increase by about 50 patients per day, following worldwide air travel disruptions caused by ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruptions. The airmen are assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group.

PATIENT TRANSFER

U.S. Air Force airmen unload a patient from a bus for transfer to the Air Force Theater Hospital during an aeromedical evacuation mission on Joint Base Balad, Iraq, April 17, 2010. The unit is expecting the average patient load to increase by about 50 patients per day, following worldwide air travel disruptions caused by ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruptions. The airmen are assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group.

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