Night Lights

by MSgt Adrian Cadiz

Night Lights

An ambulance bus from the 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Detachment 1 Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF), Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, follows an ambulance to the flightline as they transport wounded Marines to a waiting C-130 Hercules. The CASF team is responsible for taking care of and transporting patients from the staging facility and role hospital to aircraft who are then transported to the next level of medical care. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Adrian Cadiz)

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Over the years I’ve learned to give my photographs a sense of urgency.  In this photo, I wanted to use the split in the frame to pull the viewer in and question what was happening.  On May 23, 2011 an ambulance and ambulance bus from the 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF) raced through the streets Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, as they transported wounded Marines to a waiting C-130 Hercules aircraft.  The CASF team was responsible for taking care of and transporting injured and wounded personnel from the staging facility and role hospital to aircraft.  With little illumination the CASF team guided their ambulances through the dark streets of Camp Bastion and continued to provide care for a group of wounded U.S. Marines until they could load them on an aircraft for transport to the next level of treatment.