Brian Mockenhaupt: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan— By 7 a.m., the first patients of the day were slid off the medevac helicopters and wheeled into the trauma bay at the Kandahar Airfield hospital in southern Afghanistan.
“I’ve got a wedding ring. Make sure my wife gets it,” Staff Sergeant Jeremy Breece said. His face was streaked black and green with camouflage paint, and smeared with dirt from the explosion. “I need to call her and let her know I’m okay.” A tourniquet squeezed each thigh. His legs ended just below the knees, still covered in shredded pantleg. The trauma team — a doctor, two nurses, and two Navy corpsmen — cut away his uniform and checked for other wounds
“How’s Pops?” Breece asked, before a nurse sedated him.
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