Sunday, June 19, 2011

Close call on "dust off" in Afghanistan

Lance Cpl Blas Trevino from 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, left, gestures towards his troops as he holds onto a gunshot wound in his belly while running towards a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after he got shot in the stomach, outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan.



In this June 11, 2011 file photo, Lance Cpl Blas Trevino from 1st Battalion, 5th Marines shouts out as he is rescued on a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after he got shot in the stomach, outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan.
A large hole is seen on the tail of a Black Hawk helicopter after the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment came under fire while rescuing injured Marine Lance Cpl Blas Trevino after he got shot in the stomach, outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
Lance Cpl Blas Trevino from 1st Battalion, 5th Marines clinches his rosary beads as he is rescued on a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment



US Army chief SPC Jenny Martinez, left, talks to injured Lance Cpl David Richvaslky from 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he is rescued onto a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after suffering shrapnel wounds to his head, outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan.
US Army chief SPC Jenny Martinez holds the hand of an injured United States Marine who was wounded in an IED strike, onboard a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment near Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan

Afghan National Army soldiers and US Marines rush with badly wounded Afghan Army soldiers to a a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment, after they came under fire in the outskirts of Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan.
In this June 9, 2011 file photo, a US Marine walks on his way to pick up food supplies after they were dropped off by small parachutes from a plane outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan.

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