

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARY F. CALVERT/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Ghani rocks his daughter Najia, 2, at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Air Force Base, where she is recovering from injuries she sustained when she swallowed a watch battery. Medical technician Airman 1st Class Bobbie Arrington of Roanoke, Va., writes in the girl's chart as Zalmai (right) waits to see another patient at the hospital's Task Force Med.