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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Airmen with the casualty staging facility here load patients onto an ambulance bus that take them to an aircraft for a flight to Germany. Patients in Iraq are usually moved out of theater within 24 to 48 hours of being wounded. During the Vietnam War, it could take up to six weeks to have a patient ready to travel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Collen Roundtree)