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U.S. Air Force Maj. Missy Steckler, a flight nurse assigned to the 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight, provides care to a patient during a mission at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 21, 2009. The patient will be transported to Bagram Airfield in Parwan, Afghanistan.

Maj. Missy Steckler provides care to a patient .

U.S. Air Force Maj. Missy Steckler, a flight nurse assigned to the 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight, provides care to a patient during a mission at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 21, 2009. The patient will be transported to Bagram Airfield in Parwan, Afghanistan.

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