A small convoy of three Humvees left the relative safety of the military-controlled Green Zone and within minutes was fired on by a single gunman lodged high above on an overpass.
The first vehicle was caught in the spray of gunfire, and both the driver and front-seat passenger were wounded before the vehicle slewed across the freeway to an abrupt and smoking halt.
The second vehicle braked, immediately spilling troops onto the road who, darting for cover, returned a murderous fire. In seconds the gunmen collapsed behind the concrete parapet, almost certainly shot by the team doctor who, himself wounded in the arm, leaped into the first U.S. vehicle and began to administer first aid to the wounded.
Minutes later, content that these U.S. troops were in stable condition, the doctor nervously ventured onto the overpass and, exposed and vulnerable once more, administered medical aid to the fatally wounded Iraqi gunman.
Source: Gordon, Stuart. 2015. Chapter 9. The British Military Medical Services and Contested Humanitarianism. In Medical Humanitarianism, ed. Sharon Alane Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick, 176–190. University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291698-011
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