An X-ray of Airman 1st Class Daniel Cherry's left hand depicts where his middle finger was nearly sliced in two by a 4,000 pound pallet. Cherry, a C-17 Globemaster III loadmaster deployed from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., was loading cargo onto an aircraft when his finger became stuck on a D-ring and was nearly amputated between a pallet and loading rail.
<dl><dd>Unit: 379th Air Expeditionary Wing</dd>
<dd>DVIDS Tags: S.C.; surgeon; 379th Air Expeditionary Wing; surgery; Charleston Air Force Base; Intra-Theater Care program; ITCP; near amputation</dd></dl>
Taken on 1 August 2011
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