Patients board a C-130 Hercules aircraft during a Bandage Mission.
Patients from a forward operating base board a 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules aircraft during a Bandage Mission in Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 23, 2008. Bandage Missions travel to different forward operating bases throughout Iraq and pick up patients and transport them to the Air Force Theater Hospital in Joint Base Balad, Iraq.