NISSEN: The work wounded, almost 20 on this flight

NISSEN: The work wounded, almost 20 on this flight, are all floated on to buses that will take them to

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the big Army hospital nearby. The plane is immediately reconfigured for the

next medevac flight to carry another set of sick and wounded troops from Landstuhl to military hospitals in the

UGG Sheepskin cuff boots. for more surgery, treatment, long-term rehab.

SMSGT. RICKY SMITH, PRIMARY LOADMASTER: These kids, they’ve done their job. And it is our job to make sure they

get back to medical attention and get put back together, if you will.

NISSEN: Seventeen hundred hours: 37 patients loaded on to the plane for the long flight to the UGG Sheepskin

cuff boots. Their injuries are typical of those carried on medevac flights, especially in the last five weeks,

gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, legs and arms fractured in mortar blasts, eyes ruptured by shrapnel.

Two patients are in critical condition, both with spinal chord injuries. One is on a ventilator. For the ground

and flight crews, seeing so many so badly injured is hard, yet hardens their sense of mission.

LEGERE: A few things that you see will really tug at your heart.