Air Force Tech. Sgt. Tyler Szymanski, a 366th Surgical Operations Squadron medical technician, deployed with a Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha in Kanduz province, Afghanistan, lands at a remote northern Afghanistan valley to set up a forward surgical team. Szymanski, a Eugene, Ore., native, frequently found himself embedded with small, 8-10 man, Special Forces teams, and would insert onto a battlefield and set up an FST
out in a field, utilize uninhabited mud huts, or whatever he needed to
ensure his Special Forces team had medical care available on location.
(Courtesy photo)
| Date Taken: | 08.27.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 08.27.2013 16:41 |
| Photo ID: | 1004024 |
| VIRIN: | 130827-F-WU507-005 |
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| Location: | AF |
| Hometown: | BOISE, IDAHO, US |
| Hometown: | EUGENE, OREGON, US |
| Hometown: | PITTSBURG, CALIFORNIA, US |
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