‘Witch Doctors’ begin journey home

With 15 months of medical evacuation missions behind them, Soldiers from Company C, 2nd “Lobo” Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, load up their gear onto a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter before they start their trip from Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, back to the United States Oct. 25.

The Co. C “Witch Doctors” spent 15 months in Iraq as the main medical evacuation unit supporting the greater Baghdad area of operations and are the first of the brigade’s Soldiers to head home. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Nathan Hoskins, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs)