Senior Airman Aubrey Pabon checks a water sample for contamination using a blacklight. She is a bioenvironmental engineering technician with the 332nd Aerospace Medical Squadron at Balad Air Base, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tim Beckham)

“It was a small thing I could do for the country, so to speak, and the young people hurt over there.”

-- Dr. Howard Morgan, a professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, who spent 2 1/2 weeks volunteering at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.