U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Bryant Wilson, U.S. Army Sgt. Ted Werre, and U.S. Air Force Maj. William Leasure rush a patient into the Craig Joint Theater Hospital during a mass casualty response at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on Aug. 5, 2014. Wilson is deployed from Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. Leasure is deployed from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and Werre is deployed from the 814th Area Support Medical Co., Bismarck, N.D. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brandon Lingle/Released)

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U.S. Army Spec. Tyler Lenertz (left), U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Helene Gold (center), and Senior Airman Lucas Reaume (right) rush a patient into the Craig Joint Theater Hospital during a mass casualty response at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on Aug. 5, 2014. Lenertz is deployed from the 814th Area Support Medical Co., Bismarck, N.D., while Gold and Reaume are deployed from Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brandon Lingle/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Keyan Riley, 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, deputy commander for Clinical Services, speaks with U.S. Army Maj. Mark Rivera, from the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, about the transfer of patients from helicopters to the emergency department of the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Afghanistan Aug. 5, 2014. Service members assigned to CJTH and 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, “DUSTOFF,” teamed together to administer emergency care for victims of a mass casualty. Riley is deployed form the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brandon Lingle/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Travis Smith, 455th Expeditionary Medical Group aerospace medical service technician, tracks trauma patient status during a mass casualty response at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 5, 2014. Smith is deployed from Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brandon Lingle/Released)

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A U.S. Air Force operating room nurse waits to administer or pass necessary medications that doctors may need during initial treatment at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 5. 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brandon Lingle/Released)

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U.S. military doctors work together to close a wound of a patient at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 5, 2014. The team of doctors administered emergency and vital care to the victims of a mass casualty incident. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Captain Amanda Eagan, an operating room nurse, opens a wound vac sponge for Airman 1st Class German Martinez, an orthopedic scrub technician, that will be placed on the wound of a patient while the in the operating room of the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 5, 2014. The vac sponge is then attached to a suction cup to help speed the healing process. Eagan and Martinez are both deployed from Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Maj. Ryan Finnan, an orthopedic surgeon assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, injects normal saline into the leg of a patient to flush and clean the wound of a patient while in the operating room of the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 5, 2014. Finnan is deployed from the Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills in Cincinnati, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Glenn Dosado (center), a scrub technician assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, prepares a syringe for rinsing, while Capt. Brett Price, an operating room nurse, holds a surgical doppler to monitor a patient’s blood flow during a surgery at Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan Aug. 5, 2014. Dosada is deployed from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and Price is deployed from Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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$U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Freddy Toruno, 455th Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron diagnostic imaging technologist, points at the point of a fracture on an X-ray to Maj. Ryan Finnan, an orthopedic surgeon, during a surgery on a patient in an operating room of the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 5, 2014. The medical staff of CJTH and 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, “DUSTOFF,” administered emergency care to victims involved in a mass casualty event. Finnan is deployed from the Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills in Cincinnati, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)$

Bagram medics respond to mass casualty incident

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Freddy Toruno, 455th Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron diagnostic imaging technologist, points at the point of a fracture on an X-ray to Maj. Ryan Finnan, an orthopedic surgeon, during a surgery on a patient in an operating room of the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 5, 2014. The medical staff of CJTH and 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, “DUSTOFF,” administered emergency care to victims involved in a mass casualty event. Finnan is deployed from the Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills in Cincinnati, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young/Released)

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Bagram medics respond to mass casualty incident

Published Aug. 16, 2014
By Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young
455th Air Expeditionary Wing

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- U.S. service members assigned to the Craig Joint Theater Hospital and 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, "DUSTOFF," Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, teamed together to administer emergency care for victims of a mass casualty Aug. 5, 2014.