Marine Sgt. Shane Hanley, a squad leader from Easy Company, 2-2 Marines, receives treatment by U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan while airborne in an army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter, shortly after Hanley was wounded, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan on Feb. 9th. Hanley, of Punxsutawney, Pa., who agreed to have photos of himself published, sustained shrapnel injuries to the left side of his body, face and eye when an improvised explosive device detonated below him while he was on a foot patrol.
Hanley’s mother told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper that he underwent surgery–his fifth–Feb. 25 at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD., in an attempt to save the vision in his left eye, and that more surgery was scheduled in early March to repair a ruptured eardrum. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
