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Tyler Hicks/The New York Times While in flight in Helmand Province in 2010, Sgt. Ian J. Bugh, a medic, worked on Cpl. Brett Sayre, a Marine who was injured by an improvised explosive device. FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — To those unfamiliar with a battlefield’s bleak routine, Col. Michael D. Wirt’s database could be read like a catalog of horrors. In it, more than 500 American soldiers are subjected to characteristic forms of violence of the Afghan war. Faces are smacked with shrapnel, legs are blasted away near knees, bullets pass through young men’s abdomens. Vehicles roll over, crushing bones. Eardrums rupture. Digits are severed. Dozens of soldiers die. Hundreds more begin journeys home, sometimes to treatment that will last the rest of their lives. Each ... Continue reading →