Friday, December 17, 2004

At Landstuhl, those injured in Iraq get best chance at survival

At Landstuhl, those injured in Iraq get best chance at survival

BY TOM HUNDLEY
Chicago Tribune

LANDSTUHL, Germany - (KRT) - The flight from Baghdad to the snow-dusted forests of southwest Germany takes about six hours. The planes arrive every day, bearing broken soldiers from the battlefields of Iraq.

Some are walking; others, heavily sedated, are on stretchers. In the most severe cases, ghastly abdominal wounds have been left open, covered only with a clear plastic bag. From the airfield, they are loaded onto a blue bus for the short drive to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the U.S. military's largest hospital in Europe.

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