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Sometimes it is simply intense pain, screaming, blood, sandy tears and praying hard as you are rushed to the nearest medical treatment facility, not knowing if you’ll ever see the place of not before the lights permanently go out.

Such was the case for US Army Sergeants Jonathan Duralde and Luis Gamarra as they were captured in today’s SOFREP Pic of the Day aboard a MEDEVAC on June 25th, 2010. Minutes earlier, they were involved in an IED blast near Kandahar, Afghanistan. They were both from Bravo Troop 1-71 CAV.

The bird flying them out was from Charlie Co., Sixth Battalion, 101st Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade, part of Task Force Shadow.

US Army Staff Sergeant Cole Reece (Charlie Co. Sixth BN, 101st Airborne Combat Aviation Brig

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