Navy Hospital Corpsman Anthony Aquilar-Gonzales, Shock Trauma Platoon, Logistics Combat Element, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command, prepares all the necessary equipment needed to draw blood during a walking blood bank that took place while in the Middle East Nov. 14, 2017. When blood is needed quickly in large amounts, or rare types are needed, a walking blood bank is activated and volunteers are gathered rapidly. The volunteers are processed, their blood is drawn and quickly taken to the operating room and transfused into the patient.

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