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Volunteers and medical staff load a litter-bound patient from a Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility ambulance bus onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft before aeromedical evacuation out of Joint Base Balad, Iraq, on Nov. 27, 2008.

Volunteers and medical staff load a litter-bound patient.

Volunteers and medical staff load a litter-bound patient from a Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility ambulance bus onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft before aeromedical evacuation out of Joint Base Balad, Iraq, on Nov. 27, 2008.

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