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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