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Staff Sgt. David Hernandez and Tech. Sgt. Joseph Vergona load an Iraqi trauma patient.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. David Hernandez and Tech. Sgt. Joseph Vergona, both contingency aeromedical staging facility medical technicians with the 332nd Expeditionary Aeromedical Squadron, load an Iraqi trauma patient onto an Iraqi air force Huey II helicopter at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on May 14, 2008. Iraqi airmen will transport the patient to the U.S. Army's 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. The mission will be the first medical evacuation mission flown by the Iraqi air force.