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...actor; in Los Angeles. In a career spanning six decades, he starred in All Quiet on the Western Front, played opposite Greta Garbo and portrayed Dr. Kildare in the MGM film series. During World War II, Ayres provoked an outcry by declining combat duty. (He served as a medic and chaplain's aide.) Weathering the controversy, he went on to receive an Oscar nomination for his role in Johnny Belinda...
...former British soldiers: Simon Merry at the wheel, and Ian Harris riding shotgun. Bringing up the rear of the convoy was Ahmelman, driving a second BMW; with him were James "Jay" Hunt, a former U.S. Army Ranger, and Allan "Johnno" Johnson, the team leader and an ex-British Army medic. Each man had an arc of responsibility to watch and fire into in case of trouble...
...Lizzie--who declines to share her full name--wrote about the event with the same bouncy style, flip asides, exclamation points and smiley faces. Describing herself under the destroyed truck, gashes on her face, she writes, "I made the remark that I wouldn't be pretty again LOL." The medic teases her for wearing a matching bra-and-panty set in a war zone. But in quieter moments of the blog, tinges of survivor's guilt emerge: "Why did I walk away from a wreck that killed a comrade and a friend...
...seriously that an AC-130 Spectre gunship has to give a medevac covering fire to get the wounded to a combat-hospital operating theater in time to save them. Elsewhere, an improvised explosive device detonates under a Bradley fighting vehicle, blowing off its lid and killing a young medic who, though based in the rear, had volunteered to enter the fighting fray. A few feet forward, the toll would have been worse, killing the Bradley commander and his gunner. "This is a war of inches," says a shaken U.S. officer...
When Dr. Greg Henderson, a pathologist turned field medic, arrived at the Convention Center on Friday, he was the only doctor for 10,000 people. "They're stacking the dead on the second floor," he told TIME by phone. "People are having seizures in the hallway. People with open running sores, every imaginable disease and disorder, all kinds of psychiatric problems. We have people who haven't had dialysis in several days. They'll be going into kidney failure. I just closed the door on a man who ran out of medicine for his kidney transplant. Very soon his body...