Wartime healers

Capt. Donna Defreitas, 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron operating room nurse, works in an operating room at the Craig Joint-Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2016. Defreitas says her favorite part of being an operating room nurse is being in the operating room during surgeries to help and save peoples lives. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Maj. Jill Leminuex (left), 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron emergency nurse, and Staff Sgt. Ashley Gonzales (right), 455th EMOS medical technician, work in the Emergency Room at the Craig Joint-Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2016. Leminuex comes to Bagram from the Wright-Patterson Medical Center and Gonzales is an Air Force Reservist that is a nurse in the civilian sector. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Capt. Duston Brown (right), 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron clinical nurse, and Staff Sgt. Jessica Navarro, 455th EMOS medical technician, works in the En Route Patient Staging System at the Craig Joint-Theater Hospital Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2016. Brown, a Reservist, is a nurse in the civilian sector and Navarro, also a Reservist, is a pre-school teacher. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Senior Airman William McNeill, 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron surgical technician, works in an operating room at the Craig Joint-Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2016. McNeill, who used to be a Security Forces Airman, cross trained into the position he is now after hurting his shoulder. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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1st Lt. Susannah Winslet, 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron intermediate care ward nurse, poses for a photo in the intermediate care ward at the Craig Joint-Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2016. Winslet joins the Bagram community from San Antonio Military Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Staff Sgt. David Bawinkel, 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron aerospace medical service technician, works in the Intensive Care Unit where patients who are the most "trauma written" are placed, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2016. Bawinkel, who is deployed as an aerospace medical technician, assists doctors and nurses while caring for patients in a wide range of situations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Wartime healers

Published May 11, 2016
By Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman
455th Air Expeditonary Public Affairs

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Capt. Donna Defreitas, 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron operating room nurse, works in an operating room at the Craig Joint-Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2016. Defreitas says her favorite part of being an operating room nurse is being in the operating room during surgeries to help and save peoples lives. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)