The Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base, Iraq, is caring for more than servicemembers.

ABC news correspondent Bob Woodruff, co-anchor for “World News Tonight” and his cameraman, Doug Vogt, were two of their recent patients. They were wounded when the Army convoy they were traveling with was attacked near Taji, Iraq, Jan. 29. The men were medevaced to the Air Force Theater Hospital where medics worked to stabilize them for transport to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

“It’s amazing to me,” said Col. Donald Taylor, 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group commander. “Every day is an emotional event. To walk through here and see people dedicating their lives to saving lives -- both American -- and locals. It’s amazing.”

Colonel Taylor said the Air Force Theater Hospital is a full spectrum trauma center equivalent to most medical centers in the United States, including providing intensive care activity.

“We offer full-spectrum surgical care here with about 19 different sub-specialties, (including) specialties in plastics, orthopedics, hand, foot and ankle, neurosurgery, head and neck surgery, and many others,” Colonel Taylor said.

“We are able to (take care of) whatever arrives here. This is the most comprehensive forward surgical hospital the United States military has done. So we are quite proud of our medics. The level of care these Air Force medics provide here is nothing short of miraculous. If a patient arrives here alive, he or she has a 96-percent survival rate.

“The people (here) love what they do, and they feel very privileged to serve and support the cause of freedom worldwide,” Colonel Taylor said.