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wounded us army soldiers are loaded onto a c 130 hercules from st joseph , missouri air national guard at baghdad international airport ( biap ) on april 22 , 2003 the patients were staged at a medical airlift staging facility ( masf ) at biap while waiting for the aircraft to arrive the masf , consisting of only 15 personnel , is responsible for getting the sick and wounded out of the combat environment and into a hospital where they can receive more extensive care the masf at biap has been up and running for only six days and has already medically evacuated 56 patients baghdad international airport is a primary base of operations for u s troops , cargo and humanitarian airlift for operation iraqi freedom operation iraqi freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the iraqi people , eliminate iraqs weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of saddam hussein ? |
