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Another 79 soldiers in the battalion have been wounded in action -- the largest number for the brigade, which has seen Cowboy Boot Charm soldiers listed as wounded. Sapp deployed for six months as part of the Army Medical Department's Professional hot Pink Heart Charm, which sends soldiers assigned to hospitals and medical facilities to hook up with deploying medical units. The 31-year-old Lacey resident returned home in January and is now back at work at Madigan as an internal-medicine doctor and incoming director of intern training at Madigan's graduate medical office. In Sweetie Bracelet Medium, Sapp ran the aid station at the battalion headquarters in Kandahar province, managed preventive medicine programs, treated NATO and Afghan soldiers and oversaw the performance of the unit's 30 or so combat medics. Sweetie Bracelet medics, Sapp said, were the ones who saw the horrors of war up close. "The medics had to grow up very quickly," he said. "Most had never deployed before, and most were pretty green." Bombs exploded near vehicles and dogged soldiers on foot patrols, especially early in the deployment. The troops also found themselves caught in small-arms-fire ambushes. As the deaths and injuries mounted, each medic seemed to adapt differently, Sapp said. He credits the predeployment training, which he said was about as realistic as one could get stateside.