JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - Lt. Col. (Dr.) Wilmer Jones, 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group vascular surgeon, ‘scrubs in’ prior to surgery, here April 13. Doctor Jones recently performed only the ninth medically documented transposition of the internal carotid artery, the artery that provides blood to the brain. He performed the operation on a 42-year-old Iraqi woman. Doctor Jones is deployed here from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and is a native of Baltimore. Staff Sgt. Dilia Ayala)

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