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Afghanistan military hospital

With 2009 expected to be the bloodiest year since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, medical personnel at Bagram's SSG Heath N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital say they've already seen an increase in casualties and expect more. The flow of dead and wounded puts enormous strain on the soldiers and the medical staff who must face it head on. (AP) READ THE STORY: Rising toll at US military hospital in Afghanistan

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Pfc. Anthony Vandegrift of Mililani, Hawai, with Bravo Company 287, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division is brought to the emergency room on June 1 at the U.S. hospital on the Bagram Air Base. He was wounded by a roadside bomb in Nerkh district of Wardak province. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Army National Guard Chaplain Merry Wentworth, of Louisville, Kentucky comforts a wounded U.S. soldier on June 3 at the emergency room of the U.S. hospital in Bagram Air base, north of Kabul. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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U.S. medical personnel wait for the arrival of helicopters carrying wounded soldiers on June 1 at the Bagram Air Base hospital. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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A wounded Afghan translator working for the U.S. military lays on a stretcher on June 4 as he is taken off a helicopter at the air base. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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A wounded U.S. soldier in the emergency room on June 7. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Sgt. Al Smoot from Harold, California and serving in Afghanistan with a U.S. Medevac team, gives CPR to a U.S. soldier on June 7 in the hospital's emergency room. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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U.S. medical personnel treat a wounded Afghan soldier on June 5. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Maj. Maureen Nalen of Las Vegas, Nevada, with Task Force Med, talks with other emergency room personnel on June 2. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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National Guard Chaplain Merry Wentworth of Louisville, Kentucky comforts U.S. Pfc. Anthony Vandegrift of Mililani, Hawai, who is with Bravo Company 287, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, on June 1. Vandegrift was wounded by a roadside bomb in the Nerkh district of Wardak province. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Maj. Maureen Nalen waits to take Vandegrift for a scan on June 1.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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A fellow soldier visits Vandegrift on June 1 and tells him that three of their comrades were killed in the attack that injured Vandegrift. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Chaplain Merry Wentworth lights a cigar for Vandegrift on June 2. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Pfc. Anthony Vandegrift plays for a wounded comrade at the Bagram Air base hospital. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Spc. Jon Reed, of Woodland, California sits in bed at the Bagram Air Base hospital on June 7. Reed was wounded in an ambush. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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U.S. medivac personnel pick up a wounded soldier in the Tagab Valley, north of Kabul, on June 4. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Members of the U.S. Army 1/168 Medevac treat a wounded Afghan soldier in a helicopter after picking him up at the Tagab Valley on June 4. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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U.S. medical personnel treat an Afghan police officer, whose leg had been amputated, on June 10. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Comments

I have been looking for information on this since I saw an episode on national geographic. I am trying to find out what the actual name of the video is from the national geographic channel.

I know that the video was produced by an Indian company http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k9/may/may245.php because it is at the end credits of the show.

So far from all of the research I have been conducting trying to find what this show is called so I can either watch it again or download it, it could be from NatGeo's Helicopter Wars: Taliban Gambit http://www.natgeochannel.co.uk/programmes/helicopter-wars/schedule

Can anyone confirm this? I want to watch this again which is based off of this written story here.

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