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AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Nurses unload Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, from a medical evacuation Black Hawk helicopter after it landed at the helipad of the Air Force Theater Hospital operated by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group on the Balad Air Base in central Iraq. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical002.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier and fellow Marine sent as care taker rush to the emergency room of the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier and fellow Marine sent as care taker rush to the emergency room of the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical003.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier is wheeled into the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A wounded soldier is wheeled into the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical004.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Emergency room doctor, Major Corey Harrison at the Theater Medical Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, takes his flak vest off as he rushes to treat wounded American soldiers in Balad, Iraq on October 30, 2005. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Emergency room doctor, Major Corey Harrison at the Theater Medical Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, takes his flak vest off as he rushes to treat wounded American soldiers in Balad, Iraq on October 30, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical005.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ The medical staff at the Air Force Theater Hospital run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base treats wounded American soldiers. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ The medical staff at the Air Force Theater Hospital run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base treats wounded American soldiers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical006.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, Colonel Elisha Powell, left, gets information from a newly arrived wounded soldiers. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, Colonel Elisha Powell, left, gets information from a newly arrived wounded soldiers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical007A.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel John Ingari, assistant commander of the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base, inspects the body of a wounded American soldier for additional wounds perhaps unseen by the flight medic. Improvised explosive devices cause the most trauma seen in the emergency room, and the shrapnel from those blasts can easily be overlooked by flight medics. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel John Ingari, assistant commander of the Air Force Theater Hospital, run by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base, inspects the body of a wounded American soldier for additional wounds perhaps unseen by the flight medic. Improvised explosive devices cause the most trauma seen in the emergency room, and the shrapnel from those blasts can easily be overlooked by flight medics. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical008.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Doctors and nurses of the Air Force Theater Hospital treat Lance Corporal Beyers who was injured by an improvised explosive device that injured him and six other Marines with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment in Hit, Iraq on Friday, August 26. Lance Corporal Beyers lost his right arm and half of his right leg in the attack. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Doctors and nurses of the Air Force Theater Hospital treat Lance Corporal Beyers who was injured by an improvised explosive device that injured him and six other Marines with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment in Hit, Iraq on Friday, August 26. Lance Corporal Beyers lost his right arm and half of his right leg in the attack. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical009.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ General surgeon, Flight Lieutenant Collette Richards rubs the head of Lance Corporal Mark Beyers, 26, of Elma, New York, as he lies in a coma at the Air Force Theater Hospital on the Balad Air Base in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ General surgeon, Flight Lieutenant Collette Richards rubs the head of Lance Corporal Mark Beyers, 26, of Elma, New York, as he lies in a coma at the Air Force Theater Hospital on the Balad Air Base in Balad, Iraq on August 27, 2005. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical010.jpg OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ CT scan technician, Staff Sergeant Kelly Dewey, looks at the brain scan of Marlon Salcepalma through a CT scanner looking for internal bleeding after he received an RPG blast to the body at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. Such modern technology so far forward on the battlefield is what helps keep the number of patients who die once they reach the hospital down to 4.2%, according to Colonel Elisha Powell. OCTOBER 30, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ CT scan technician, Staff Sergeant Kelly Dewey, looks at the brain scan of Marlon Salcepalma through a CT scanner looking for internal bleeding after he received an RPG blast to the body at Balad Air Base, on October 30, 2005. Such modern technology so far forward on the battlefield is what helps keep the number of patients who die once they reach the hospital down to 4.2%, according to Colonel Elisha Powell. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical011.jpg OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ New medical techniques like the external fixator, being inserted into a wounded soldier's leg with a drill seen here, is just one innovation that was tested in the battlefield hospital in an effort to try to more quickly heal the shattering wounds caused by improvised explosive devices. OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ New medical techniques like the external fixator, being inserted into a wounded soldier's leg with a drill seen here, is just one innovation that was tested in the battlefield hospital in an effort to try to more quickly heal the shattering wounds caused by improvised explosive devices. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical012.jpg OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel Elisha Powell the commander of the Theater Medical Hospital of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base takes his mask off and cleans up in the field and tent operating room where he prepares wounded soldiers for their flight to Germany for more advanced surgery. OCTOBER 31, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Colonel Elisha Powell the commander of the Theater Medical Hospital of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, at Balad Air Base takes his mask off and cleans up in the field and tent operating room where he prepares wounded soldiers for their flight to Germany for more advanced surgery. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical013.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Corporal John Apollony, center, holds the hand of fellow Marine, Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling, after finding each other in the hospital in Balad on August 27, 2005. Corporal Apollony, who was in the hospital for a fractured hand, heard Schilling was injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Hit, Iraq the day before. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Corporal John Apollony, center, holds the hand of fellow Marine, Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling, after finding each other in the hospital in Balad on August 27, 2005. Corporal Apollony, who was in the hospital for a fractured hand, heard Schilling was injured in an improvised explosive device attack in Hit, Iraq the day before. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical014.jpg NOVEMBER 1, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Tech Sergeant Darrell Waite, right, with the Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) transport a critically wounded Marine from the Balad Theater Medical Hospital in Balad, Iraq to a waiting aircraft ready to fly to Landstuhl, Germany. NOVEMBER 1, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Tech Sergeant Darrell Waite, right, with the Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) transport a critically wounded Marine from the Balad Theater Medical Hospital in Balad, Iraq to a waiting aircraft ready to fly to Landstuhl, Germany. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical015.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded are transported from the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF) at Baled Air Base to a bus which will transport them to a C-17 aircraft that will take them on a 5-hour flight to Germany. The CASF manages the movement of the full range of injured soldiers who have to be transported out of Iraq for care. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded are transported from the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF) at Baled Air Base to a bus which will transport them to a C-17 aircraft that will take them on a 5-hour flight to Germany. The CASF manages the movement of the full range of injured soldiers who have to be transported out of Iraq for care. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical016.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Flight medics make final adjustments to the medicine that Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling will receive before he is transported by a C-141 out of Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. AUGUST 27, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Flight medics make final adjustments to the medicine that Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling will receive before he is transported by a C-141 out of Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical017.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded American soldiers are carefully placed onto a C-17 cargo aircraft by a Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) who will monitor and given medication to relax and ease the pain of air transport for the wounded. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers can expect a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Wounded American soldiers are carefully placed onto a C-17 cargo aircraft by a Critical Care Aeromedical Team (CCAT) who will monitor and given medication to relax and ease the pain of air transport for the wounded. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers can expect a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical018.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A member of the Air Evacuation Unit checks on wounded American soldiers being transported from the Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers have a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A member of the Air Evacuation Unit checks on wounded American soldiers being transported from the Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Thanks to the rapidity of the transport from the battlefield to the hospital, soldiers have a 96% chance of survival from their wounds once they make it to the hospital. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical019.jpg AUGUST 27, 2005- OVER TURKEY Flight medical technician, Staff Sergeant Judd Everly from the 94th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron serves hot dogs to wounded soldier Staff Sergeant John Carroll, who has a broken hand, during the flight of a C-141 medical transport from Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he will receive treatment. The flight medics try to make sure the wounded have all of their medical and comfort needs taken care of during the flight. AUGUST 27, 2005- OVER TURKEY Flight medical technician, Staff Sergeant Judd Everly from the 94th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron serves hot dogs to wounded soldier Staff Sergeant John Carroll, who has a broken hand, during the flight of a C-141 medical transport from Balad Air Base in central Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he will receive treatment. The flight medics try to make sure the wounded have all of their medical and comfort needs taken care of during the flight. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical020.jpg NOVEMBER 2, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY A wounded soldier is carried off of a C-17 aircraft to a rainy flight line at Ramstein Air Base after taking a five-hour flight from Iraq. Soldiers are transported on a C-17 plane from Iraq to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. The wounded are then transported to buses and driven to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center where their wounds will be further repaired, cleaned and treated. By the time the wounded reach Germany they face mainly operations of recovery as opposed to life saving operations. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY A wounded soldier is carried off of a C-17 aircraft to a rainy flight line at Ramstein Air Base after taking a five-hour flight from Iraq. Soldiers are transported on a C-17 plane from Iraq to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. The wounded are then transported to buses and driven to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center where their wounds will be further repaired, cleaned and treated. By the time the wounded reach Germany they face mainly operations of recovery as opposed to life saving operations. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical021.jpg AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Specialist John Mora adjusts an x-ray machine for Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center of his amputated right leg and shrapnel ravaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American Hospital outside of the United States. The hospital serves wounded service members from Iraq with approximately 110 physicians, 250 nurses, 40 medical service corps officers, 900 enlisted personnel, and 550 civilian employees. AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Specialist John Mora adjusts an x-ray machine for Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center of his amputated right leg and shrapnel ravaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American Hospital outside of the United States. The hospital serves wounded service members from Iraq with approximately 110 physicians, 250 nurses, 40 medical service corps officers, 900 enlisted personnel, and 550 civilian employees. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical022.jpg AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling calls his family from the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany after arriving from Iraq overnight. AUGUST 28, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling calls his family from the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany after arriving from Iraq overnight. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical023.jpg AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment after he arrived from Iraq with an amputated right leg and a shrapnel-damaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American hospital outside of the United States. AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment after he arrived from Iraq with an amputated right leg and a shrapnel-damaged left hand. The 162-bed Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American hospital outside of the United States. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical024.jpg AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips, left, and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling’s amputated leg just hours after he arrives from Iraq. At this stage of treatment doctors are already shaping the amputated stump for optimal use with prosthetic legs. Bone that extends past the flesh must be cut back and the flesh cleansed for best recovery. With the majority of the wounds from Iraq accruing from roadside bombs, such operations are a daily procedure. AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Doctor Major Paul Phillips, left, and the medical staff of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center prepare to clean and evaluate Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling’s amputated leg just hours after he arrives from Iraq. At this stage of treatment doctors are already shaping the amputated stump for optimal use with prosthetic legs. Bone that extends past the flesh must be cut back and the flesh cleansed for best recovery. With the majority of the wounds from Iraq accruing from roadside bombs, such operations are a daily procedure. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical025.jpg AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Chaplin George Brubaker performs the communion for the sick with Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling in his Landstuhl Regional Medical Center bed. Lance Corporal Schilling is Catholic and comes from a farming family in rural Pennsylvania. His unit is a reserve Marne unit based out of Buffalo, New York. AUGUST 29, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Chaplin George Brubaker performs the communion for the sick with Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling in his Landstuhl Regional Medical Center bed. Lance Corporal Schilling is Catholic and comes from a farming family in rural Pennsylvania. His unit is a reserve Marne unit based out of Buffalo, New York. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical026.jpg AUGUST 30, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Physical Therapist Maj. Ford David Paulson helps Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling choose which stretch of the hallway to tackle, the short way or the long way, as Schilling takes his first walker-assisted steps at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Schilling chose to take the longer trip. Schilling returned to his bed exhausted but satisfied that with a modern prosthetic limb, he would be able to walk again. Once back in the United States Schilling will join the ranks of approximately 5,557 soldiers who have suffered wounds in Iraq in the year 2005 alone. Some 15, 955 have been wounded since the start of the war according to information released by the United States government. AUGUST 30, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Physical Therapist Maj. Ford David Paulson helps Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling choose which stretch of the hallway to tackle, the short way or the long way, as Schilling takes his first walker-assisted steps at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Schilling chose to take the longer trip. Schilling returned to his bed exhausted but satisfied that with a modern prosthetic limb, he would be able to walk again. Once back in the United States Schilling will join the ranks of approximately 5,557 soldiers who have suffered wounds in Iraq in the year 2005 alone. Some 15, 955 have been wounded since the start of the war according to information released by the United States government. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical027.jpg EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY After receiving a Purple Heart from Major General McCarthy a wounded soldier recounts the attack that resulted in his wounds in Afghanistan at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The quick medical transportation system is efficient at treating physical wounds but the mental trauma suffered will take longer to treat. EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY After receiving a Purple Heart from Major General McCarthy a wounded soldier recounts the attack that resulted in his wounds in Afghanistan at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The quick medical transportation system is efficient at treating physical wounds but the mental trauma suffered will take longer to treat. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01182013_Becherer_IraqMedical028.jpg EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Four days after losing his leg from an improvised explosive device, Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling gets a hair cut at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. After more stabilizing surgeries in Germany he will be flown to the United States where he will be fitted with a prosthetic limb. EPTEMBER 1, 2005- LANDSTUHL, GERMANY Four days after losing his leg from an improvised explosive device, Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling gets a hair cut at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. After more stabilizing surgeries in Germany he will be flown to the United States where he will be fitted with a prosthetic limb. https://maxbecherer.com/medivac 2026-04-04 monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac001.jpg 2:35 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Specialist Elizabeth Shrode, a medic with the 54th Medical Evacuation unit, responds to a call to transport two wounded soldiers, from the location of an attack near Balad, to the Balad Theater Hospital. In preparation for the mission, Shrode dons her flight suit, bulletproof vest, and flight helmet. Nearing the end of a yearlong deployment, Shrode has flown hundreds of medical evacuation missions. The 54th Medical Evacuation unit responds to soldiers in central Iraq who need immediate medical evacuation and takes them directly to the largest and most advanced medical hospital in Iraq. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac002.jpg 2:46 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Specialist Elizabeth Shrode gets her first look of the landing zone where a wounded U.S. soldier waits for medical evacuation. During the fly-by, Shrode evaluates the security of the landing zone and the distance she will have to carry her equipment. Specialist Shrode speaks to the pilot over the radio and advises him on any adjustments to the approach she may want. As the trained lifesaver on the flight, Shrode leads the mission. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac003.jpg 2:48 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Crew chief, Specialist Brandon King unloads a stretcher as he provides security for Medic Elizabeth Shrode who has connected with the soldier on the ground to evaluate the patients. Medivac crews often land in hostile situations, so they strive to spend no more than 10 minutes on the ground. The crew chief monitors the loading and unloading of the aircraft and attempts to keep the pickup on schedule. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac004.jpg 2:49 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Upon arrival only one soldier is at the landing zone, and he appears to be dead. Specialist Shrode directs soldiers to load the stretcher on the chopper. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac005.jpg 2:49 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Upon arrival only one soldier is at the landing zone and he appears to be dead. Specialist Shrode directs soldiers to load the stretcher on the chopper. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac006.jpg 2:49 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ A gravely wounded U.S. soldier is loaded onto the helicopter for medical evacuation. Only one of the two reported wounded was at the landing zone as one soldier was driven to the nearby hospital. Suffering from two severed legs and an open stomach wound, medics on the ground applied two tourniquets to the wounded soldier on the scene where his vehicle was ambushed by a grenade attack. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac007.jpg 2:50 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ Specialist Elizabeth Shrode sees no signs of life as she choppers to the Balad Theater Medical Hospital. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac008.jpg 2:51 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ To feel for a pulse on the wrist, Specialist Shrode removes the patient’s watch. After feeling no sign of a pulse, Shrode refastened the dead soldier’s watch and held his hand for a few moments, as the helicopter raced to the hospital. Finding no signs of life, there was little left for Shrode to do but try to comfort the soldier in case there were any remaining tinges of life left. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/01102013_Becherer_Medivac009.jpg 3:10 P.M. NOVEMBER 2, 2005- BALAD, IRAQ After the flight Specialist Shrode is debriefed. 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VACHERIE, LOUISIANA March 27: Executive Director Dr. Claudette Aubert helps children to their classes at the Greater Grace Charter Academy in Vacherie, La. on Monday, March 27, 2017. 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Attorney Ben Cohen with the Promise of Justice Initiative poses for a photo in a legal library in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Cohen works to reform Louisiana's criminal justice system and worked to change a discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt. Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Attorney Ben Cohen with the Promise of Justice Initiative poses for a photo in a legal library in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Cohen works to reform Louisiana's criminal justice system and worked to change a discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/03nonunanimousadv013.jpg Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Calvin Duncan poses for a photo with two stacks of legal paperwork filed under "Notification of Direct Appeal Decision" and Non-unanimous Jury Verdict issues" in his Central Business District office in New Orleans, La., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. Duncan is a former Angola inmate who is pushing the United States Supreme Court, through repeated petitions on behalf of inmates convicted on non-unanimous jury counts, to overturn the state's unusual law allowing murder convictions of a 10 to 2 jury serious felony cases. Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Calvin Duncan poses for a photo with two stacks of legal paperwork filed under "Notification of Direct Appeal Decision" and Non-unanimous Jury Verdict issues" in his Central Business District office in New Orleans, La., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. Duncan is a former Angola inmate who is pushing the United States Supreme Court, through repeated petitions on behalf of inmates convicted on non-unanimous jury counts, to overturn the state's unusual law allowing murder convictions of a 10 to 2 jury serious felony cases. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/03nonunanimousadv009.jpg Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Defense attorney David Belfield stands for a portrait in front of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Belfield says he would be much more willing to take cases to trial if the jury verdicts had to be unanimous. Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Defense attorney David Belfield stands for a portrait in front of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Belfield says he would be much more willing to take cases to trial if the jury verdicts had to be unanimous. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/03nonunanimousadv010.jpg Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Wilfred Moliere, 68, is pictured in his home in front of a painting depicting a scene of the Underground Railroad in Marrero, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Moliere was a holdout juror in the 1998 trial of Travis Hayes, which ended in a 10-2 vote. Hayes' murder conviction was later overturned. Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Wilfred Moliere, 68, is pictured in his home in front of a painting depicting a scene of the Underground Railroad in Marrero, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Moliere was a holdout juror in the 1998 trial of Travis Hayes, which ended in a 10-2 vote. Hayes' murder conviction was later overturned. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/03nonunanimousadv014.jpg Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Leon Miller, the head of the Louisiana Research Collection, sits behind a copy of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana is photographed at the in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Leon Miller, the head of the Louisiana Research Collection, sits behind a copy of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana is photographed at the in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, March 27, 2018. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/03nonunanimousadv012.jpg Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Paul Bonin is pictured in his chambers in New Orleans, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Judge Bonin presided over one of the first 10-2 convictions challenged to a mistrial after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to reconsider nearly a half-century of precedent allowing split-jury verdicts. Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Paul Bonin is pictured in his chambers in New Orleans, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Judge Bonin presided over one of the first 10-2 convictions challenged to a mistrial after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to reconsider nearly a half-century of precedent allowing split-jury verdicts. https://cdn.neonsky.app/50aa5e49ea29f/images/03nonunanimousadv011.jpg Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Attorney Timothy Meche poses for a photo in the library of his law office in New Orleans, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Meche has his hand on an amicus brief he filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 on behalf of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, highlighting the racist origins of the state's non-unanimous verdict law. Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Attorney Timothy Meche poses for a photo in the library of his law office in New Orleans, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Meche has his hand on an amicus brief he filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 on behalf of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, highlighting the racist origins of the state's non-unanimous verdict law.