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Treatment here in germany. now we are about to make a nine-hour flight back to the united states, finally, they are getting back home. >> you remember the other guy we put the antibiotics on -- >> reporter: air force medical teams tend to every need on the final leg of the journey home. captain chris watkins, a nurse, has worked evac flights for seven years. he sees the rising number of wounded firsthand. >> unfortunately, it's a lot of blast injuries. we have a lot of amputations and a lot of significant trauma patients. that requires some sort of continuous monitoring care or obviously surgi...

Small arms fire, gunshot wounds. they have gotten their initial treatment here in germany. now we are about to make a nine-hour flight back to the united states, finally, they are getting back home. >> you remember the other guy we put the antibiotics on -- >> reporter: air force medical teams tend to every need on the final leg of the journey home. captain chris watkins, a nurse, has worked evac flights for seven years. he sees the rising number of wounded firsthand. >> unfortunately, it's a lot of blast injuries. we have a lot of amputations and a lot of significant trauma patients. that req...

Explosion, mortars, artillery, small-arms fire, gunshot wounds. they have gotten their initial treatment here in germany. now we are about to make a nine-hour flight back to the united states. finally, they are getting back home. >> remember the other guy with the about botantibiotics? >> reporter: air force on the final journey home. captain chris watkins, a nurse, has worked evac flights for seven years. he sees the rising number of wounded first hand. >> unfortunately a lot of blast injuries, a lot of amputations, significant trauma patients that require some sort of continuous monitoring h...

Afghanistan. these troops have all suffered injuries from ied, roadside bomb explosions, mortars, artillery, small arms fire, gunshot wounds. they have gotten their initial treatment here in this germany. now we are about to make a nine-hour flight back to the united states. finally, they are getting back home. >> remember the other guys we put the antibiotics on? >> air force medical teams tend to every need on the final leg of the journey home. captain chris watkins, a nurse, has worked evac flights for seven years. he sees the rising number of wounded first-hand. >> unfortunately, it's a lo...

>> this is what it's really all about. you can see the plane now is full of the combat wounded from afghanistan. these troops have all suffered injuries from ied, roadside bomb explosions. mortars, artillery, small arms fire, gunshot wounds. they have gotten their initial treatment here in germany. now we're about to make a flight back to the united states. finally they're getting back home. >> captain chris watkins has worked evac flights for seven years. he sees the rising number of wounded firsthand. >> unfortunately it's a lot of blast injuries we have a lot of amputations, a lot of signif...