Konar Province, Afghanistan, Oct. 14, 2008: Sgt. Adam Connaughton keeps watch on a U.S. soldier badly injured by a roadside bomb. The soldier had few external injuries but likely suffered serious internal head trauma, medics said. Three other soldiers were killed in the blast.

It has been a year of hard fighting at many of the U.S. outposts scattered in northeastern Afghanistan, and the medevac platoon has been there for the worst of it.

Read about the 101st Aviation Regiment medevac’s deployment in Afghanistan and see additional photos here.

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