THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Medical Assistance in Afghanistan

Afghan villagers crowd around a U.S. Army convoy during a Cooperative Medical Assistance team medical and veterinarian civic action program in Kharwar, Afghanistan, Oct. 5, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joey L. Suggs

A U.S. Army soldier from the Cooperative Medical Assistance team takes down the engineer tape that was strung up to keep vehicles from entering a medical and veterinarian civic action program in Kharwar, Afghanistan, Oct. 5, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joey L. Suggs

An Afghan National Army soldier searches a local villager as a security measure before he is seen at a medical and veterinarian civic action program conducted by the Cooperative Medical Assistance team out of Bagram Airfield, Oct. 5, 2006, in Kharwar, Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joey L. Suggs

U.S. Navy Master Chief Rick Wilson, from the Cooperative Medical Assistance team, conducts a routine examination as part of a medical and veterinarian civic action program in Kharwar, Afghanistan, Oct. 5, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joey L. Suggs

A local medical doctor, right, speaks to a patient during a medical and veterinarian civic action program in Kharwar, Afghanistan conducted by the Cooperative Medical Assistance team out of Bagram Arifield, Oct. 5, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joey L. Suggs

U.S. Army Capt. Mark A. Miller, from the Cooperative Medical Assistance Team, numbs a village elder's mouth in preparation for a tooth extraction during a medical civic action program in Charkh, Afghanistan, Oct. 6, 2006.U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joey L. Suggs

U.S. Army Maj. Jessica A. McCoy, a veterinarian from the Cooperative Medical Assistance team out of Bagram Airfield, uses a tube to feed medicine to a cow during a veterinarian civic action program in Kharwar, Afghanistan, Oct. 5, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joey L. Suggs