Fellow U.S. Marines escort Sgt. Michael Medinasanchez to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during his medical evacuation in the Nawa district of the Helmand province of Afghanistan Aug. 4, 2009.
Medinasanchez, assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3 (-REIN), 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade ? Afghanistan, was shot in the finger during a patrol. The Marines are deployed in support of NATO?s International Security Assistance Force to improve security and stability in Afghanistan. (DoD photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg, U.S. Marine Corps). Original public domain image from Flickr