Airlift Missions: Airborne Lifeline, Afghanistan: AIRBORNE-LIFELINE05

A flight nurse adjusts pillows to help make Sylvain Ross of the Canadian Military more comfortable for the C-17 flight from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. Ross was trying todismantle an IED while on patrol inAfghanistan when it blew up, injuring his arms andburning his face. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)

A flight nurse adjusts pillows to help make Sylvain Ross  

of the Canadian Military more comfortable for the C-17  

flight from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. Ross  

was trying todismantle an IED while on patrol in 

Afghanistan when it blew up, injuring his arms and 

burning his face. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)