Stripes: Wuerzburg hospital team is home from Iraq

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The 67th CSH’s Mosul contingent endured a difficult deployment. Three times the hospital was moved after rocket attacks scored direct hits on its building at Camp Marez. And the medics handled a staggering 91 casualties at once a few days before Christmas when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of the base’s chow hall.

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Families had gathered about 5 a.m. in the temporary “reunion” building near the helipad at Würzburg’s Leighton Barracks, holding signs, flowers and balloons while children frolicked in a makeshift play area in one corner of the tent.

But due to a series of delays, the troops and their families weren’t reunited until shortly after 11 a.m.

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Brian Stewmon spent 11 months in Iraq in 2003 as an AH-60 Apache Longbow pilot, then played parental tag team with their three children as his wife, a combat nurse, deployed for 11 months with the 67th CSH.

They’ve been apart 22 of the past 23 months...


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