CAPT. Carol Theiss of the 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron helps a patient with his meal during a medical evacuation flight from Islamabad, Pakistan, to Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany, aboard a 17th Military Airlift Squadron C-141B Starlifter aircraft. Twenty-four rebels wounded in Afghanistan's civil war are being evacuated to hospitals in Europe and the United States for donated medical treatment
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Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. F. Lee Corkran
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Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
04/11/1989
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The U.S. National Archives
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