Afghan air force medics load an Afghan National Army gunshot wound patient onto a Cessna 208 as part of a casualty evacuation mission May 20, 2013, from Kandahar Airfield to Kabul, Afghanistan. AAF-wide, CASEVAC missions have increased 34 percent between December 2012 and April 2013. Thus far in May 2013, AAF medics and aircrew have conducted 33 CASEVAC missions and moved 76 patients from battlefields, forward operating bases and clinics to more sophisticated medical hospitals. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Anastasia Wasem)