LANDSTUHL, Germany March 29 —
Ten more U.S. soldiers with battlefield wounds were flown to
Germany Saturday for treatment at a military hospital.
The soldiers arrived at the Ramstein Air Base in western Germany
on board a C-141 transport plane, along with 12 others suffering
from non-combat injuries, said Master Sgt. Jon Hanson, a spokesman
for 86th Airlift Wing, based at Ramstein.
They were taken by bus to the nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical
Center.
The military did not release the soldiers' identities or any
other details.
A total of 81 soldiers from the Iraq war were being treated at
Landstuhl, 33 of them with battle wounds.
photo credit
and caption:
An unidentified wounded U.S.
soldier is carried on a stretcher off a C-141 military plane
at the U.S. Air Base Ramstein in southern Germany, Saturday
March 29, 2003. A total of 22 U.S. soldiers wounded in the
Iraq war arrived to get medical treatment in nearby Landstuhl
Medical Center. Ten of them were injured in combat. (AP
Photo/Michael Probst)
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