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Medical staff worked long shifts around the clock as wounded soldiers and civilians flooded into the single-story plywood hospital planted in the middle of the desert in Afghanistan as missiles, bullets, and bombs rained down in the distance.
Maj. Lisa Compton, pictured in 2009, when she was the trauma program manager at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit in Kandahar. - ContributedMaking do with the equipment and continuous mass casualties was a challenge for the medical staff that typically worked 12-hour shift rotations, with time off only to eat, sleep, and then return to it.
'Crypto girl': Meet the P.E.I. woman who worked in secret to save lives as a codebreaker for wartime intelligenceOn Compton’s first deployment to Afghanistan, a month in, a volunteer interpreter at Role 3 – whom she refers to as “John” to conceal his real identity for the security of his family, who were marked by the Taliban and narrowly escaped – risked his life for her when a rocket targeted their military base.
“I thought I had done all my helicopter stuff because I was going out to the small hospitals, so I truly believed I was done. But the day I was due to leave Bagram, something was going on, and the routes had been turned black, so I had no other choice. It was one of the most challenging moments because I promised my son, Brighton, I was done with helicopter travel.Maj. Lisa Compton at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan.
"And when I finally came home, it was beyond traumatic to see the Taliban return to power in 2021, and I suffered from PTSD.”To heal, she became the president of the Quilts of Valour to support injured Canadian Armed Forces members, past or present, with quilts of comfort.
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