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Since the war began, the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, as the hospital is known, has treated 7,714 soldiers, 937 of them for combat injuries. They arrive at the nearby Ramstein Air Base on military transport planes, round the clock, at a rate of more than 30 a day.
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The days are long and grinding, with setbacks like the death on Thursday of one of the soldiers from the helicopter, Sergeant Paul Fisher.
A National Guardsman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Fisher, 39, had been transferred to a German hospital near Saarbrücken because his wounds were especially grave.
Only three other soldiers from Iraq have died while in Germany, a statistic of which people here are quietly proud.
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For Cornum, the toughest battle is bureaucratic: she needs more doctors and nurses.
While the army and air force have assigned 340 doctors, nurses, technicians and chaplains from reserve units to augment the medical staff of 1,800, their tours run out in February.
"You can't work people 60 hours a week forever," she said.