An Afghan army soldier wheels a wounded fellow soldier into the ER at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, Afghan army doctors and medics prepare for emergency surgery on a wounded Afghan soldier, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The names of the Afghan doctors and medics are withheld for their protection. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, Afghan army doctors and medics prepare for emergency surgery on a wounded Afghan soldier, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The names of the Afghan doctors are withheld for their protection. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, U.S Air Force Mentor-CRNA Maj. David Johnson, center, of the Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG, helps manage dozens of Afghan army cadets he convinced to participate in a blood drive, at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. The MTAG team, comprised of 12 U.S. Air Force medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In this Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 photo, a wounded Afghan army soldier lis on a stretcher waiting to be seen, while more serious cases are attended to, inside the ER at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, KRMH, inside Camp Hero, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. A U.S Air Force Medical Training Advisory Group, or MTAG team, comprised of 12 medical professionals, is assigned to the Afghan military hospital, and are tasked with providing transitional guidance to local medical workers, who treat Afghan soldiers, civilians, and occasionally insurgents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Associated Press photographs From left, Afghan National Army soldiers Mirza Mirzali, a Pashtun; Mullah Assan, an ethnic Turkmeni; and Aijad, an ethnic Tajik, are representative of the various ethnicities in the army. Despite ethnic quotas, the Afghan army is still dominated by northern minorities who were oppressd by the Taliban. The Taliban is made up of mostly Pashtuns.
A U.S. soldier helps an Afghan army soldier, one of two wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, to an evacuation helicopter in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, on Monday Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
During a helicopter rescue mission en route to a military hospital, Staff Sgt. Brandon Smith, a Pararescueman, or "PJ," of the 58th Rescue Squadron, treats an Afghan National Army soldier with a gunshot wound to the back, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. The PJs and helicopter aircrews are part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing based at Kandahar Air Field, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Following a helicopter rescue mission, military hospital staff wheel rush an Afghan National Army soldier with a gunshot wound to the back into a hospital, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday July 29, 2010. U.S Air Force Pararescuers and helicopter aircrews are part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
