A bus from the Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, prepares to offload ambulatory and litter-bound patients from a C-130 Hercules Nov. 8. Two Iraqi doctors from Iraq's Ministry of Defense accompanied a Air Force aeromedical evacuation mission to study aeromedical evacuation procedures so that they can establish an aeromedical evacuation service for the Iraqi air force. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jason Epley)