1.   For the more serious cases, there was air transport direct to base hospital, possibly hundreds of miles to the rear.

2.   Meanwhile in the overcrowded, squalid base hospitals, those who had survived so far were dying like flies, their beds immediately refilled.

3.   But with the military downsizing and scores of Army, Navy and Air Force hospitals closing, many live too far from the nearest base hospital.

4.   For example, under Russian government formulas that base hospital aid on the number of patients, promoting home care meant a huge drop in subsidies.

5.   Navy Capt. Al Shimkus, who oversees the base hospital, said four of the prisoners required surgery.

6.   She was treated and released from the base hospital.

7.   Someone from the Navy suggested we go to the base hospital, where the wounded had been taken.

8.   The most seriously wounded were operated on right away, and those who could stand the journey were evacuated to base hospitals farther from the front.

9.   They landed on the athletic field of a nearby high school, and later were treated and released at the base hospital.