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The Military Health System Saved My Sight

While deployed to Syria as a construction engineer supervisor, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Earlie Brown experienced agonizing eye pain. He tried to “heal myself with eye drops—and I told the doctor, ‘I'm fine. Just let me keep going on with my mission.’” But the military physician assigned to his base knew he wasn’t fine and started an immediate evacuation to save Brown’s sight.

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