Squeezing his surgeon's hand, Barran, a 26-year-old Afghan man from the local city of Farah, who recently underwent a three hour surgery at the Forney Clinic located on Forward Operating Base Farah by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Bradley, an orthopaedic surgeon assigned to the Forward Surgical Team Farah, is re-evaluated by Bradley, Nov. 3, at the Special Operations Forces Clinic just outside FOB Farah. Barran was pushing a car three days ago, Oct. 31, when his right had broke through the headlight causing him to sustain nerve, multiple tendons and artery damage to his hand and arm. The FST medical team has conducted 17 surgeries since they arrived in July 2009, and the surgeons often follow-up with their patients through the SOF Clinic. Their goal is to work in partnership with local Farah Hospital doctors and internists to teach them more advanced medical techniques and treatments. The ultimate goal of the Provincial Reconstruction Team medical team and the FST is to see the SOF Clinic handed over to the local Afghan doctors and for them to take control of it permanently.