Joseph Dwyer, an Army medic whose unit was fighting its way up the Euphrates to Baghdad, cradles a wounded boy.
Christopher Scheuerman, a former Army special forces medic whose son, Jason, killed himself in Iraq in 2005, called the new policy "a victory for families of troubled soldiers".
It has been impossible to use the highway since 8 February, said Alla Neschadym, a national guard medic whose son Oleg is fighting in Debaltseve.
Mr. Neuman said the medic, whose name he did not know, turned to him and suggested they make their own escape before their captive could blow himself up.
Set in a dilapidated hospital in the Shatila refugee camp, in Beirut, in the mid-nineties, the book's many winding stories are told by a male Scheherazade, a fortyish Palestinian medic whose unceasing talk is intended to rouse a comatose old man, a resistance hero who spent decades sneaking over the Lebanese border into Israel, to carry out attacks that earned him the title the Wolf of Galilee.
Sgt. Cunningham's roommate was PFC Juan Restrepo, the medic whose death inspired the award-winning doc.
Many years later, while in the army, I met a fellow medic whose raucous, hyena-like laugh earned him the moniker "Mad Dog".
The administration is trying to shape a "career-ready military" whose medics and electricians can more easily attain the licenses they need to work as civilians.
The last time Congress rejected a nominee to the highest court was in 1894, when it turned down a former army medic and writer whose judicial experience consisted of serving on a military tribunal during the Paraguay war of 1865-70.
