
David Guttenfelder
FILE - This July 6, 2009 file photo shows medics attached to the U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines carrying a Marine, who was overcome by heat exhaustion, to a medical evacuation helicopter in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province. The American military death toll in Afghanistan surpassed 1,000 when NATO reported that a service member was killed Friday, May 28, 2010 in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)