Air Force Maj. Michael Parsons, an ophthalmologist assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, compares the likeness of a prosthetic left-eye ball to the actual right eye of an Afghan soldier prior to placing the prosthetic into his empty eye socket while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Air field, Afghanistan, Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him in his eye four months ago. Parsons is a native of Poughkeepsie, and deployed form the 88th surgical squadron at Wright-Patterson, Air Force Base, Ohio. Master Sgt. Co

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Air Force Maj. Michael Parsons, an ophthalmologist assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, compares the likeness of a prosthetic left-eye ball to the actual right eye of an Afghan soldier prior to placing the prosthetic into his empty eye socket while at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Air field, Afghanistan, Aug. 7, 2014. The soldier suffered an eye trauma when shrapnel from an explosion hit him in his eye four months ago. Parsons is a native of Poughkeepsie, and deployed form the 88th surgical squadron at Wright-Patterson, Air Force Base, Ohio. Master Sgt. Cohen A. Young

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