NEWS - Apr 30, 2008


Medics treat people of Jaffer village


 
 

Just a little pressure.

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – First Lt. Amy Hawkins, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind., checks a boy’s breathing during a medical operation April 29 at the Al Arwa Abn Al Ward School in Jaffer village, which is in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad. Hawkins is a physician assistant assigned to Company C, 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. The MEDOP was hosted by Company B, 52nd Infantry Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd SBC.(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christina Bhatti, 2nd SBCT PAO, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B)

Bugs in the ear.

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Pfc. Melanie Shelton, a native of Henniker, N.H., looks down the ear of a girl who attended a medical operation April 29 at the at the Al Arwa Abn Al Ward School in Jaffer village, which is in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad. The child had a bug stuck in her ear and was treated further by a physician assistant. Henniker is a medic assigned to Company C, 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. The MEDOP was hosted by Company B, 52nd Infantry Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd SBCT. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christina Bhatti, 2nd SBCT PAO, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B)

Eye see you.

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Maj. Sean Hollonbeck, a native of Rochelle, Ill., checks the eyes of an Iraqi woman during a medical operation April 29 at the Al Arwa Abn Al Ward School in Jaffer village, which is in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad. The doctors and physician assistants provided acute and self help care to the people of the village. Hollonbeck is assigned to 4th Squadron, 3rd Armor Cavalry Regiment, Multi-National Division – Baghdad and serves as the squadron surgeon for 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, and as the brigade surgeon for Task Force XII, MND-B. The MEDOP was hosted by Company B, 52nd Infantry Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christina Bhatti, 2nd SBCT PAO, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B)

A little heart.

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Spc. Melodye Dzamba, a native of Tahlequah, Okla., checks a heart murmur in one of the patients who came to a medical operation April 29 at the Al Arwa Abn Al Ward School in Jaffer village, which is in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad. Dzamba is a medic assigned to Company C, 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. The MEDOP was hosted by Company B, 52nd Infantry Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd SBCT.(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christina Bhatti, 2nd SBCT PAO, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B)

Listening to the heart.

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Maj. Sean Hollonbeck, a native of Rochelle, Ill., checks the heart of a woman with high blood pressure during a medical operation April 29 at the at the Al Arwa Abn Al Ward School in Jaffer village, which is in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad. Hollonbeck is assigned to 4th Squadron, 3rd Armor Cavalry Regiment, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, and serves as the squadron surgeon for 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, and as the brigade surgeon for Task Force XII. The MEDOP was hosted by Company B, 52nd Infantry Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, MND-B. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christina Bhatti, 2nd SBCT PAO, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B)

 

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