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Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Schilling, with the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment is carried into the Air Force Theater Hospital operated by the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group on the Balad Air Base in central Iraq. Lance Corporal Schilling was wounded on Friday August 26th when his foot patrol was attacked with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Hit, Iraq. Lance Corporal Schilling lost his right foot and received a massive wound in his left hand. The hospital serves as an aeromedical evacuation support hub that provides trauma and specialized medical care to coalition forces all over Iraq. Such modern technology so far forward on the battlefield is what helps keep the number of patients who die once they reach the hospital down to 4.2%, according to Colonel Elisha Powell, commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group. The hospital treats U.S. service members, U.S. contractors, Iraqi security forces, Iraqi civilians and insurgents.
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