 The forward surgical team at forward operating base logman is a varied medical team of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel. They come from the active duty, National Guard and reserves and are trained to deal with medical emergencies and provide initial care to ISAF forces. They also have the capabilities to deal with non-traumatic patients such as one Afghan soldier suffering from an old IED wound. There's about 25, 26 of us here with this unit together. When you first come in you have all these different people from different locations that are just kind of thrown together as a team. So challenges as far as getting to know one another and getting to work with one another. Yeah that's kind of a rough ride in the beginning but sooner or later everybody's on one accord and you're just flowing right through the whatever it is that you have coming in. You get to work with a lot of you know professional people who do their job very well. The experience here is great. I think you'll never ever get experienced this kind of setting you know with the trauma that we do receive from the war and it's nothing like nothing like the States and I've been to the trauma centers down in LA and stuff like that. It's pretty good training down there too but up here it's you'll never experience it. So me I work in OBGYN back in the States and it's a little bit different because there's no no trauma aspect to it and here that's all you see pretty much. I definitely think it's something that people should definitely have an opportunity to see hands on up close and personal what we do in an environment like this. Honestly I just joined just to do my first four years and then I was going to get out and then you know do the civilian stuff but I've actually enjoyed it and I'm learning a lot and so you know a great experience for me.