Medical crews transfer patients out of Afghanistan
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- Lt. Col. Patricia Fulton, a medical crew director with the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight, tends to a critical care patient. Aeromedical evacuation crews performed 19,025 patient movements in 2009, and have evacuated more than 140,000 patients since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Daniel Riley)