Word: littering
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...wounded. They carried the wounded through the valley at the foot of the ridge and up a narrow trail to an aid station just beyond the bean fields where General Craig sat sweeping the height with his field glasses. I sat there beside him, wondering if the stream of litter bearers would ever stop coming up out of that damned valley...
...Korea is in doctors and trained corpsmen. In a schoolhouse clearing station at Kwanni I saw doctors who worked the clock around for three days and three nights, resting on their feet with their eyes closed and heads against a wall for a few moments, while corpsmen moved one litter from the surgeon's bench and reached for another...
...last war, our greatest lifesaver is bottled plasma and the rapidity with which it is injected. The jeep which can carry up to four litter cases, sometimes with two or three corpsmen hanging on with one hand and holding a plasma bottle high with the other, is one of the most dramatic of war scenes...
...Rest. After the corpsmen who travel with the foot soldiers pick up the wounded, casualties are moved in stages by litter jeep, ambulance and train or plane to a rear field hospital. In gravely critical cases I have seen pilots bring tiny L-5 planes down on dirt roads or cleared fields to carry out one litter case...
...tent and flop on a cot. A moment later his commanding officer shook him and said: "We've got a kid over here shot through the throat. We've got to get him to Taegu. Can you keep awake?" The pilot struggled to his feet and muttered: "Litter case? I'm awake." He walked over to his plane and looked in at an ivory-faced boy with a tube dangling from his throat. The pilot stepped in and his little L-5 buzzed down what was once the main street of a Korean village...