Dane Harden
Senior Flight Surgeon
Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Bosnia, Ksovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
1976-2018
Senior Flight Surgeon
Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Bosnia, Ksovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
1976-2018
Colonel Dane Harden was born in 1958 in the little town of Frostburg, Maryland that had a population of approximately 8,000. “It's way up in the mountains. You walk another 10 minutes and you're in West Virginia - it’s coal country.” Dane’s father was a World War II veteran and served in Okinawa. Later his father worked as a machinist for Kelly Springfield Tire company and his mom was a housekeeper at a local hospital.
Dane was the youngest of the five. During his senior year of high school, he had three siblings in college and another that had recently completed college. “When I talked to my dad, he said ‘there was no money to go to college’.” He talked to an Army recruiter and enlisted on a delayed entry program in December of 1975. Dane graduated from high school in May 1976 and started basic training in June 1976 to earn his GI Bill benefits and gain experience in order to get benefits to assist with the costs of college after finishing his enlistment service.
Dane headed to basic training in the southern heat of Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. Although it was a challenge, Dane’s childhood activities helped prepare him for bootcamp and becoming a soldier. He had run track, cross country and wrestled in high school and he had studied martial arts since he was nine years old. He also shot on an NRA rifle team, and enjoyed activities like hunting, fishing, hiking and outdoor adventures. Post Vietnam boot camp was a culture shift for a kid from a small town and learning to deal with the various personalities and of course the drill sergeants. It was an experience of growth and one of great value in his development.
In boot camp and one station unit training (OSUT) Dane learned his basic soldier skills and trained as a combat engineer and demolition specialist. He later completed the Sapper Leadership course, which is a challenging four-week program for engineers. It is a very challenging - combat oriented program and very similar to RANGER training, but with the addition engineer skills. It requires weeks of sleepless nights and long harsh training days that challenge the engineer candidates. It’s an elite honor among engineers and there is a significant attrition rate as the training progresses. Generally, only one in ten candidates ever complete the training. The Army has three Tabs: RANGER’s, Special Forces (Green Berets) and SAPPER’s. “A SAPPER - like the British demolition frog man that would blow up the bridges and those sorts of things.” That’s an interesting combat arms background for a soldier, who would eventually become a medical specialist corps officer putting soldiers back together.
As a Combat Engineer then Sergeant Harden deployed to Enewetak Island, which is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the South Pacific. It is part of the Marshall Islands and was occupied by the Japanese during WWII during their effort to project power and control the southern pacific theater.
After the war the island council signed treaties with the U.S. that involved nuclear testing detonations, near the home island. The U.S.had agreed to return the island of Enewetak to its people, after the testing of thermonuclear weapons in the 1950’s. The devastation was so severe it took decades to recover. Eventually new treaties had to be agreed upon to find a new home for the islanders. Nonetheless, in 1978 Dane’s Combat Engineer group worked at restoration of the islands in order to return them to the islanders.
Dane completed his four years of service and began college. He completed undergraduate degrees at Salisbury State College. He also earned a master’s degree in medical science and a second Master’s Degree in military science and leadership and then completed his medical training in 1993. He is Board Certified in Primary Care Medicine and General Surgery. Dane rejoined the Army and completed his military medical training at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, Medical Specialist Corps, United States Army. He continually attended medical training programs including Combat Tactical Casualty Care, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Goat Schools and did residencies in emergency medicine and a specialization in surgery. His military training included SERE School (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape), Air Assault School jumping from helicopters, the Expert Field Medical Badge and at Fort Rucker, Alabama he attended flight surgeon school, training in aviation medicine, aeromedical evacuation, downed aircraft recovery and air rescue.
“That's really when everything took off…no pun intended”…
Dane completing over one hundred missions while deployed and many of those in direct support of ongoing combat operations in extreme high-risk active zones.
His first deployment - after the Berlin Wall fell was in north eastern Europe with a medical contact team in Tallinn, Estonia teaching medical operations to the Estonian, Lithuania and Latvian armies. His teaching helped the Estonian military understand NATO procedures and medical management. The Estonian’s had been previously trained by the Soviet Union.
Next he deployed to war torn Bosnia Herzegovina, as a NATO Peace Keeper. Dane recalled that Slobodan Milosevic had unleashed a reign of terror and ethnic cleansing. “They destroyed Sarajevo. Milosevic attacked local governance, it turned into a hate filled war rapidly gaining global concern over the unrest between factions and escalated into an all-out war. “It was a very violent place.”
Dane recalled treating an injured peacekeeper inside an APC (armored personnel carrier) and hearing ping’s and then multiple rapid pings. He asked, “what the hell is that?”…a Sergeant replied, ‘they're shooting at us, Sir’. One of Dane’s more vivid memories from the Balkans.
Dane was stationed at Camp Comanche near Tuzla and close to Eagle Base in Bosnia. His primary duties included flying trauma medevac operations, downed aircraft recovery (DART), and search and rescue. The U.S. Army and NATO Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) allowed for care of locals in emergent conditions at NATO Bases and Forward Operating areas (FOB) often caring for locals injured by land mines and (IED)
improvised explosive devices. Dane delivered a number of babies in the Balkans where rape and assault were weaponized and made tools of war.
“That was really my first understanding of what World War II veterans experienced. There was such hatred going on there… Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia.” Dane also served in Camp Bondstel, Kosovo providing medevac operations and trauma treatment.
In 2001 Dane deployed to the Port of Kopar, Slovenia. He recalled the men enjoying a well-earned day off relaxing at a Beach in Slovenia. The day was September 11, 2001. “I remember the Sergeant’s face when he approached the men…. fear. He came over to us on the beach and said, ‘Sir - we gotta get you guys back inside the wire the worlds on fire’, our country was attacked. “The Pentagon, Trade Towers and other targets had been hit…we locked and loaded our weapons and our entire team - far from home, waited for World War III staying on that level for days - thinking about my wife, son…if I’d ever see them again.”
Dane returned home in December 2001. When Dane left for deployment, his son was three weeks old and now he was walking and talking. The Harden’s son, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Harden, is named after well-known civil war Union general. General Chamberlin was made famous by the heroic actions at Gettysburg…earning a Medal of Honor for his actions on July 3 and 4, 1963…”Chamberlin is someone I admire’”…said Colonel Harden.
It was Christmas 2003 Dane found himself deployed to Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom. “My tours there were extended and I didn't get back home until 2005 so I was gone for two years or three deployments through the height of the “surge”…because of my job, I rotated around the theater a good bit.”
“I cross filled in Afghanistan covering medivac operations at Bagram Air Base. The flight surgeon there had been killed. Snipers often targeted medical assets despite the Red Cross on our choppers.” In Afghanistan he served with the 10th Mountain Division and after several months, he went back to Iraq continuing to serve there. “There's just not a lot of guys so it’s not uncommon to share coverage areas.”
Iraq or Afghanistan, you would find Dane in a Blackhawk, or Chinook flying medevac. “I remember getting on a Chinook and I looked an old Warrant Officer…I said, ‘Chief, the aircraft is leaking oil see?’ Without hesitating he said, ‘Doc, If you ever get on one of these things and it's not leaking oil…get off because it means, it doesn't have any’…that same Chief once told me…’Doc’ there’s two kinds of aviators…those who have crashed and those who will’.” Lessons and wisdom taught by Warrant Officers.
The Evac Black Hawk’s were equipped with ventilators and medical kits. “My job - keep them alive and get them to higher levels and definitive care. Shock trauma, bleeding control were a constant- as well as administering fluids, pain management and stabilization in flight.” The main source for pain management was morphine, propofol, ketamine, succinylcholine, quick clot, tourniquets and protocols. Dane talked about balancing pain management with preventing the soldiers from going into shock.
The medevac would transport the wounded back behind the lines where they could receive more complete care. “It was load and go and occasionally stay and play…we would go and hit an LZ. For the most part the LZ’s were fairly secure occasionally they were more interesting when we flew in. We flew into a few hot LZ's to get guys out of harms ways. We medevac’d a lot of Marines in 2004 Fallujah.” The wounded in Iraq would be sent to Kuwait and U.S. bases Ali Al Salem or Arifjan for their long-term care.
Typically, flight surgeons deal with aviators and keeping them healthy. Because of his multiple deployments and experiences, Danes operational time had the effect of “mission creep” and he would often get tapped for high-risk medevac operations. “I did it so much…”. That matches the military adage “the more you do it, the more you’ll do it”.
Dane spent a lot of his time on active duty and also National Guard status for a total of thirty five years of service. He talked about the role of the Army National Guard, which is a component of the Army. He recalled being on deployment overseas and a memorable sign one of the soldiers had written, “a weekend a month my ass”.
“I spent time with the Army National Guard and served with them on many deployments and operations like Hurricane Katrina and the 1996 Olympics - watch the news, the Army is a family and all the components - make it work, as one Team. At Katrina we worked as part of the search and rescue crew in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina extricating numerous hurricane survivors. His flight group was featured on "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, who flew along with them on their rescue missions. Civilian disasters have a similarity in that the mission is the same - to preserve life.
Dane described several differences between serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. “One is mountainous. So, when we were flying OPS in Afghanistan, we were getting up to 12 or 14 thousand feet. Altitude injuries were, common. Cold weather injuries were fairly common. At that time, I did think they were both about the same - as far as activity. 2004 in Iraq was like the wild west. My unit went back to Iraq in 2010 - it was quieter.”
Dane talked about having to treat wounded enemy soldiers (EPW) that were taken prisoner. “I treated many.” Iraqi’s and Afghani’s did not follow the Geneva Convention, but the Coalition-forces did. “Geneva Convention is written that medical officers - any healthcare person is required to deliver care to treat everyone. End of story.” Dane said it could be challenging to care for an insurgent enemy. “I focused on what I was doing, and I just did the job.”
Not all injuries came from combat. Dane recalled a soldier in Iraq bitten by a Black Scorpion. “He tried to die twice, but we got him back…we are still friends to this day. He calls me on his birthday and says, ‘thanks doc’. He was intubated and ventilated on the evac flight. We gave him intravenous steroids, etc. A black scorpion, “Buthida” species, has stingers its’ telson gland filled with venom. That triggered an anaphylactic reaction. He eventually improved and got back on active duty later retiring as a Master Sergeant.
After the Iraq and Afghanistan experiences Dane spent a year at Command and General Staff College at Fort Dix and was then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He deployed in 2012 to Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia with a medical contact team training and teaching.
When Dane returned to the states, he was assigned a MEDCOM commander and was promoted to Colonel. As a unit Commander “I ‘flew a desk’ from that point forward, but in 2016 I did complete one more deployment with NATO to Cincu, Romania and Bulgaria running medical operations and evacuation training”.
Dane gives credit to his wife for all of her support through his career and deployments. “I have to really give so much credit and Love to my wife for managing so much of everything at home…as far as investments, portfolios, finances, houses, my son, and how well he's doing. That's all in large part due to her efforts, love and devotion. It’s always annoying to me that military wives don't get more recognition…. Inside of my flight helmet, I always had a picture of my wife and son, so every time I flew or took it off, I saw what mattered most to me - my family and home.
Dane has always been deeply involved in a variety of martial arts since he was nine. He holds numerous Black belt ratings and instructor certifications in Tae kwon do, Yoshinkan Aikido, and Goshindo Sword.
His wife Sherry is very involved in the martial arts and has trained in Taekwondo for more than twenty years. Their son Joshua and his fiancé are also involved in Taekwondo, Goshindo Sword, and Aikido.
Dane and Sherry are also involved in Wilderness Medicine. Dane described Wilderness Medicine as looking at the environment and identifying the environmental threats and risks, and understanding how these risks influence the practice of medicine for remote conditions. These risks can include snake and insect venom, hyperthermia, hypothermia, acute mountain sickness, high altitude cerebral edema, and more. Dane is a Fellow of the Wilderness Medical Society and has lectured both nationally and internationally on this topic. They also enjoy mountain climbing and have summited some very difficult mountains. Mount Shasta, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Mount Blanc, Kilimanjaro. In 2025 Dane and Sherry are planning a wilderness trip to Bhutan.
Dane, we thank you and your family for all of the sacrifices made over a very long career. We thank you for doing the hard work of saving soldiers’ lives and helping them through what is likely to be the most difficult time of their lives.
Medicine has come a long way since Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War.
Dane was the youngest of the five. During his senior year of high school, he had three siblings in college and another that had recently completed college. “When I talked to my dad, he said ‘there was no money to go to college’.” He talked to an Army recruiter and enlisted on a delayed entry program in December of 1975. Dane graduated from high school in May 1976 and started basic training in June 1976 to earn his GI Bill benefits and gain experience in order to get benefits to assist with the costs of college after finishing his enlistment service.
Dane headed to basic training in the southern heat of Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. Although it was a challenge, Dane’s childhood activities helped prepare him for bootcamp and becoming a soldier. He had run track, cross country and wrestled in high school and he had studied martial arts since he was nine years old. He also shot on an NRA rifle team, and enjoyed activities like hunting, fishing, hiking and outdoor adventures. Post Vietnam boot camp was a culture shift for a kid from a small town and learning to deal with the various personalities and of course the drill sergeants. It was an experience of growth and one of great value in his development.
In boot camp and one station unit training (OSUT) Dane learned his basic soldier skills and trained as a combat engineer and demolition specialist. He later completed the Sapper Leadership course, which is a challenging four-week program for engineers. It is a very challenging - combat oriented program and very similar to RANGER training, but with the addition engineer skills. It requires weeks of sleepless nights and long harsh training days that challenge the engineer candidates. It’s an elite honor among engineers and there is a significant attrition rate as the training progresses. Generally, only one in ten candidates ever complete the training. The Army has three Tabs: RANGER’s, Special Forces (Green Berets) and SAPPER’s. “A SAPPER - like the British demolition frog man that would blow up the bridges and those sorts of things.” That’s an interesting combat arms background for a soldier, who would eventually become a medical specialist corps officer putting soldiers back together.
As a Combat Engineer then Sergeant Harden deployed to Enewetak Island, which is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the South Pacific. It is part of the Marshall Islands and was occupied by the Japanese during WWII during their effort to project power and control the southern pacific theater.
After the war the island council signed treaties with the U.S. that involved nuclear testing detonations, near the home island. The U.S.had agreed to return the island of Enewetak to its people, after the testing of thermonuclear weapons in the 1950’s. The devastation was so severe it took decades to recover. Eventually new treaties had to be agreed upon to find a new home for the islanders. Nonetheless, in 1978 Dane’s Combat Engineer group worked at restoration of the islands in order to return them to the islanders.
Dane completed his four years of service and began college. He completed undergraduate degrees at Salisbury State College. He also earned a master’s degree in medical science and a second Master’s Degree in military science and leadership and then completed his medical training in 1993. He is Board Certified in Primary Care Medicine and General Surgery. Dane rejoined the Army and completed his military medical training at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, Medical Specialist Corps, United States Army. He continually attended medical training programs including Combat Tactical Casualty Care, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Goat Schools and did residencies in emergency medicine and a specialization in surgery. His military training included SERE School (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape), Air Assault School jumping from helicopters, the Expert Field Medical Badge and at Fort Rucker, Alabama he attended flight surgeon school, training in aviation medicine, aeromedical evacuation, downed aircraft recovery and air rescue.
“That's really when everything took off…no pun intended”…
Dane completing over one hundred missions while deployed and many of those in direct support of ongoing combat operations in extreme high-risk active zones.
His first deployment - after the Berlin Wall fell was in north eastern Europe with a medical contact team in Tallinn, Estonia teaching medical operations to the Estonian, Lithuania and Latvian armies. His teaching helped the Estonian military understand NATO procedures and medical management. The Estonian’s had been previously trained by the Soviet Union.
Next he deployed to war torn Bosnia Herzegovina, as a NATO Peace Keeper. Dane recalled that Slobodan Milosevic had unleashed a reign of terror and ethnic cleansing. “They destroyed Sarajevo. Milosevic attacked local governance, it turned into a hate filled war rapidly gaining global concern over the unrest between factions and escalated into an all-out war. “It was a very violent place.”
Dane recalled treating an injured peacekeeper inside an APC (armored personnel carrier) and hearing ping’s and then multiple rapid pings. He asked, “what the hell is that?”…a Sergeant replied, ‘they're shooting at us, Sir’. One of Dane’s more vivid memories from the Balkans.
Dane was stationed at Camp Comanche near Tuzla and close to Eagle Base in Bosnia. His primary duties included flying trauma medevac operations, downed aircraft recovery (DART), and search and rescue. The U.S. Army and NATO Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) allowed for care of locals in emergent conditions at NATO Bases and Forward Operating areas (FOB) often caring for locals injured by land mines and (IED)
improvised explosive devices. Dane delivered a number of babies in the Balkans where rape and assault were weaponized and made tools of war.
“That was really my first understanding of what World War II veterans experienced. There was such hatred going on there… Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia.” Dane also served in Camp Bondstel, Kosovo providing medevac operations and trauma treatment.
In 2001 Dane deployed to the Port of Kopar, Slovenia. He recalled the men enjoying a well-earned day off relaxing at a Beach in Slovenia. The day was September 11, 2001. “I remember the Sergeant’s face when he approached the men…. fear. He came over to us on the beach and said, ‘Sir - we gotta get you guys back inside the wire the worlds on fire’, our country was attacked. “The Pentagon, Trade Towers and other targets had been hit…we locked and loaded our weapons and our entire team - far from home, waited for World War III staying on that level for days - thinking about my wife, son…if I’d ever see them again.”
Dane returned home in December 2001. When Dane left for deployment, his son was three weeks old and now he was walking and talking. The Harden’s son, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Harden, is named after well-known civil war Union general. General Chamberlin was made famous by the heroic actions at Gettysburg…earning a Medal of Honor for his actions on July 3 and 4, 1963…”Chamberlin is someone I admire’”…said Colonel Harden.
It was Christmas 2003 Dane found himself deployed to Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom. “My tours there were extended and I didn't get back home until 2005 so I was gone for two years or three deployments through the height of the “surge”…because of my job, I rotated around the theater a good bit.”
“I cross filled in Afghanistan covering medivac operations at Bagram Air Base. The flight surgeon there had been killed. Snipers often targeted medical assets despite the Red Cross on our choppers.” In Afghanistan he served with the 10th Mountain Division and after several months, he went back to Iraq continuing to serve there. “There's just not a lot of guys so it’s not uncommon to share coverage areas.”
Iraq or Afghanistan, you would find Dane in a Blackhawk, or Chinook flying medevac. “I remember getting on a Chinook and I looked an old Warrant Officer…I said, ‘Chief, the aircraft is leaking oil see?’ Without hesitating he said, ‘Doc, If you ever get on one of these things and it's not leaking oil…get off because it means, it doesn't have any’…that same Chief once told me…’Doc’ there’s two kinds of aviators…those who have crashed and those who will’.” Lessons and wisdom taught by Warrant Officers.
The Evac Black Hawk’s were equipped with ventilators and medical kits. “My job - keep them alive and get them to higher levels and definitive care. Shock trauma, bleeding control were a constant- as well as administering fluids, pain management and stabilization in flight.” The main source for pain management was morphine, propofol, ketamine, succinylcholine, quick clot, tourniquets and protocols. Dane talked about balancing pain management with preventing the soldiers from going into shock.
The medevac would transport the wounded back behind the lines where they could receive more complete care. “It was load and go and occasionally stay and play…we would go and hit an LZ. For the most part the LZ’s were fairly secure occasionally they were more interesting when we flew in. We flew into a few hot LZ's to get guys out of harms ways. We medevac’d a lot of Marines in 2004 Fallujah.” The wounded in Iraq would be sent to Kuwait and U.S. bases Ali Al Salem or Arifjan for their long-term care.
Typically, flight surgeons deal with aviators and keeping them healthy. Because of his multiple deployments and experiences, Danes operational time had the effect of “mission creep” and he would often get tapped for high-risk medevac operations. “I did it so much…”. That matches the military adage “the more you do it, the more you’ll do it”.
Dane spent a lot of his time on active duty and also National Guard status for a total of thirty five years of service. He talked about the role of the Army National Guard, which is a component of the Army. He recalled being on deployment overseas and a memorable sign one of the soldiers had written, “a weekend a month my ass”.
“I spent time with the Army National Guard and served with them on many deployments and operations like Hurricane Katrina and the 1996 Olympics - watch the news, the Army is a family and all the components - make it work, as one Team. At Katrina we worked as part of the search and rescue crew in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina extricating numerous hurricane survivors. His flight group was featured on "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, who flew along with them on their rescue missions. Civilian disasters have a similarity in that the mission is the same - to preserve life.
Dane described several differences between serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. “One is mountainous. So, when we were flying OPS in Afghanistan, we were getting up to 12 or 14 thousand feet. Altitude injuries were, common. Cold weather injuries were fairly common. At that time, I did think they were both about the same - as far as activity. 2004 in Iraq was like the wild west. My unit went back to Iraq in 2010 - it was quieter.”
Dane talked about having to treat wounded enemy soldiers (EPW) that were taken prisoner. “I treated many.” Iraqi’s and Afghani’s did not follow the Geneva Convention, but the Coalition-forces did. “Geneva Convention is written that medical officers - any healthcare person is required to deliver care to treat everyone. End of story.” Dane said it could be challenging to care for an insurgent enemy. “I focused on what I was doing, and I just did the job.”
Not all injuries came from combat. Dane recalled a soldier in Iraq bitten by a Black Scorpion. “He tried to die twice, but we got him back…we are still friends to this day. He calls me on his birthday and says, ‘thanks doc’. He was intubated and ventilated on the evac flight. We gave him intravenous steroids, etc. A black scorpion, “Buthida” species, has stingers its’ telson gland filled with venom. That triggered an anaphylactic reaction. He eventually improved and got back on active duty later retiring as a Master Sergeant.
After the Iraq and Afghanistan experiences Dane spent a year at Command and General Staff College at Fort Dix and was then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He deployed in 2012 to Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia with a medical contact team training and teaching.
When Dane returned to the states, he was assigned a MEDCOM commander and was promoted to Colonel. As a unit Commander “I ‘flew a desk’ from that point forward, but in 2016 I did complete one more deployment with NATO to Cincu, Romania and Bulgaria running medical operations and evacuation training”.
Dane gives credit to his wife for all of her support through his career and deployments. “I have to really give so much credit and Love to my wife for managing so much of everything at home…as far as investments, portfolios, finances, houses, my son, and how well he's doing. That's all in large part due to her efforts, love and devotion. It’s always annoying to me that military wives don't get more recognition…. Inside of my flight helmet, I always had a picture of my wife and son, so every time I flew or took it off, I saw what mattered most to me - my family and home.
Dane has always been deeply involved in a variety of martial arts since he was nine. He holds numerous Black belt ratings and instructor certifications in Tae kwon do, Yoshinkan Aikido, and Goshindo Sword.
His wife Sherry is very involved in the martial arts and has trained in Taekwondo for more than twenty years. Their son Joshua and his fiancé are also involved in Taekwondo, Goshindo Sword, and Aikido.
Dane and Sherry are also involved in Wilderness Medicine. Dane described Wilderness Medicine as looking at the environment and identifying the environmental threats and risks, and understanding how these risks influence the practice of medicine for remote conditions. These risks can include snake and insect venom, hyperthermia, hypothermia, acute mountain sickness, high altitude cerebral edema, and more. Dane is a Fellow of the Wilderness Medical Society and has lectured both nationally and internationally on this topic. They also enjoy mountain climbing and have summited some very difficult mountains. Mount Shasta, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Mount Blanc, Kilimanjaro. In 2025 Dane and Sherry are planning a wilderness trip to Bhutan.
Dane, we thank you and your family for all of the sacrifices made over a very long career. We thank you for doing the hard work of saving soldiers’ lives and helping them through what is likely to be the most difficult time of their lives.
Medicine has come a long way since Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War.