New Joint Theater Hospital Offers Advanced Care in Afghanistan

By Staff Sgt. Thomas J. Doscher, USAF | Special to American Forces Press Service
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, March 5, 2007 – In 2006, Army Staff Sgt. Heathe N. Craig, a medic with the 159th Medical Company, 10th Mountain Division, was holding a patient desperately as they were both being hoisted from a ridgeline by a Black Hawk helicopter. Halfway to the chopper, the line snapped, and Craig and his patient fell to their deaths.