Military medical officials said that as US forces entered the war with Iran, they lacked the same level of medical support they saw during the Global War on Terror. A US service member deployed aboard a ship in the Middle East suffered severe injuries in an equipment accident in March. He had to go ashore for care, but there was no US-run medical facility available nearby. He was treated at a host-nation hospital before being transferred to the American military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where doctors found his limb had turned almost black and his life was in danger.
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