Brig. Gen. Joseph Guastella, commander 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, and 455 AEW Command Chief, Command Sgt. Marcus Snoddy, speak with Maj. James Webb, a Critical Care nurse assigned to the Army's 966th Forward Surgical Team, Task Force-Medical Alpha, prior to Webb's Purple Heart presentation at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Aug. 28, 2012. Webb was serving as part of the medical evacuation crew in the central Ghazni province of Afghanistan when he was shot by an enemy AK-47 while loading a patient aboard his helicopter.

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