While maneuvering to engage the enemy, Staff Sergeant Miller was shot in the upper torso.

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To immobilise the patient, the mask is placed over the head and upper torso and then screwed to the treatment table.

BBC: Radiotherapy mask

"I obviously don't want him to walk, but as long as he doesn't see the light of day again, it doesn't really much concern me beyond that, " said Stephen Barton, who suffered wounds on his face, neck and upper torso in the shooting that night.

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