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    Miracle Mothers Spend Special Day in Afghanistan Saving Other's Children

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    A medical or veterinary professional is performing a surgical procedure while wearing full protective gear including a blue surgical gown, pink camouflage scrub cap, face mask, face shield, and long yellow gloves. The practitioner is leaning over a patient and using surgical instruments, with visible biological material on the gloves. The setting appears to be a clinical or veterinary surgical room with shelved medical supplies in the background.

    KUNAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN

    05.08.2010

    Photo by 1st Lt. Amy Abbott 

    Combined Joint Task Force - 82 PAO

    U.S. Army Maj. Kristina Walich, an orthopedic surgeon from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, currently working with the 555th Forward Surgical Team at Forward Operating Base Wright in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province works on a burn patient. Walich is mother to 4-year-old and 11-month-old daughters. The primary mission of the FST consists of providing lifesaving measures to wounded servicemembers, both U.S. and Afghan.

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    Date Taken: 05.08.2010
    Date Posted: 05.08.2010 19:00
    Photo ID: 277001
    Resolution: 3000x4000
    Size: 4.01 MB
    Location: KUNAR PROVINCE, AF

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