*Area nurse helped treat wounded soldiers (10/20/04)

Area nurse helped treat wounded soldiers
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By Dorothy Y. Lewis, Rocky Mount Telegram
436 Words
20 October 2004
Cox News Service
English
Copyright 2004 Cox News Service, All Rights Reserved.
A Twin Counties woman recently spent several months in Iraq helping to save wounded soldiers' lives.

U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Maria Buss, a nurse with the 1st Force Service Support Group's Surgical/Shock Trauma Platoon, spoke about her experiences in Iraq while visiting her family in Rocky Mount this week.

"I was on call all the time dealing with trauma patients," said Buss, whose unit from Camp Pendleton in San Diego, Calif., was deployed in Iraq for seven months. "Some of the soldiers were amputees, but most of them had shrapnel injuries resulting from improvised explosive devices placed on the roads."

Buss, 24, received a degree in nursing in 2002 from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill after graduating from Rocky Mount Senior High in 1998.

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