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U.S. Air Force Maj. Michael Parsons, an ophthalmologist assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, looks through a container of prosthetic eyeballs while an Afghan soldier listens to an interpreter explain the process of ocular prosthesis while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him four months ago. Parsons is a native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and deployed form the 88th surgical squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Vernon Price, a medical technician assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, places numbing eye drops in the left-eye socket of an Afghan soldier prior to placing the prosthetic into it while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him four months ago. Price is a native of Goldsborough, N.C. and deployed form the 4th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Vernon Price, a medical technician assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, removes a protective glass from the left eye socket of an Afghan soldier prior to placing the prosthetic into his empty eye socket while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him four months ago. Price is a native of Goldsborough, N.C. and deployed form the 4th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Maj. Michael Parsons, an ophthalmologist assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, checks the eye muscles of the left eye socket of an Afghan soldier prior to placing a prosthetic into his empty eye socket while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him four months ago. Parsons is a native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and deployed form the 88th surgical squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Vernon Price, a medical technician assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, places a prosthetic eye into the left eye socket of an Afghan soldier while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him four months ago. Price is a native of Goldsborough, N.C. and deployed form the 4th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Seymour Johnson, Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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An Afghan interpreter listens to an Afghan soldier while he tells her of the discomfort of a prosthetic eye that was just placed in his left eye socket while receiving treatment at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him in his eye four months ago. Price is a native of Goldsborough, N.C. and deployed form the 4th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Seymour Johnson, Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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A medical interpreter assists with the selection of a left-eye prosthetic that will be placed the eye socket of an Afghan soldier while at Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered a trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him in his eye four months ago. As a result, he underwent enucleation eye surgery, which removes the eyeball, but the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents remain intact. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Vernon Price, a medical technician assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, compares the likeness of an assortment of prosthetic left-eyeballs to an Afghan soldier’s right eye prior to placing the prosthetic into his empty eye socket while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him four months ago. Price is a native of Goldsborough, N.C. and deployed form the 4th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Vernon Price, a medical technician assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, places a prosthetic eye into the left eye socket of an Afghan soldier while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him four months ago. Price is a native of Goldsborough, N.C. and deployed form the 4th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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An Afghan soldier looks in the mirror to look at his new prosthetic eye. The soldier had enucleation eye surgery after shrapnel from an explosion hit him in his eye. Enucleation eye surgery is when the eye is removed, but the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents remain intact. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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Afghan soldier receives prosthetic eye

Published Aug. 11, 2014
By Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young
455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- U.S. Air Force Maj. Michael Parsons, an ophthalmologist assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Vernon Price, a medical technician provide an afghan soldier with a prosthetic eye while working at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The soldier suffered an eye trauma as a result of shrapnel from an explosion and had his eyeball removed during surgery, but the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents remained intact.

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