Traveling with military medics in Afghanistan

The World

July was the deadliest month for US and allied forces in Afghanistan since the war began. Most of the deaths occurred in the volatile Helmand Province. The World’s Aaron Schachter spent last week embedded with a team of army medics just behind the front lines in southern Helmand.

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