• Bob Strong / Reuters

    U.S. Marines carry a comrade wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) to a waiting medevac helicopter, near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province, August 21, 2010.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    U.S. Marines carry a wounded comrade to a medevac helicopter.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    A U.S. Marine injured by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is transported to a military hospital.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    U.S. Army medic Staff Sergeant Rahkeem Francis (R) and crew chief Staff Sergeant Christopher Meece with Charlie Company, 6-101 Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, treat an Afghan boy with a broken leg onboard a medevac helicopter near the town of Marjah.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    A tag identifies the injury on a wounded U.S. Marine as he is evacuated by an Army medevac helicopter.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    A medevac helicopter prepares to land near a smoke grenade to pick up a badly wounded Marine.

    Helping the wounded

    Bob Strong has been working in Afghanistan for the past two months. During the last few days he's been photographing a compelling series on U.S. Medevac units helping NATO forces as well as Afghans.