Military Photos: A Month Inside the Armed Forces, August

Burn patient Spc. Bobby Bernier, 26, displays scar tissue from skin grafts at the U.S. Army burn center in San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 8, 2012. Bernier, a U.S. Army artileryman, was burned over much of his body on May 18, 2012 when Taliban insurgents attacked his unit in Nangahar, Afghanistan, wounding himself and a comrade and killing two of his fellow soldiers. The facility, officially called the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center, has treated more than 930 military personel burned during combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2003 and is the only burn center under the U.S. Department of Defense. It has also treated some 2,500 civilian emergency burn patients from the South Texas region. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)