Retired Army Staff Sgt. Earl Granville, a former infantryman with the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 28th Infantry Division, speaks to an audience about the importance of blood donations and how those donations saved his life after a roadside bomb killed two of his fellow Soldiers and seriously injured him resulting in a left leg through-the-knee amputation, during the Fort Bliss Armed Services Blood Program’s Donor Recognition Ceremony at Army Community Services, Fort Bliss, Texas, March 26. In 2017, the Fort Bliss ASBP held 130 blood drives and collected 3,831 units of red blood cells and 275
Retired Army Staff Sgt. Earl Granville, a former infantryman with the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 28th Infantry Division, speaks to an audience about the importance of blood donations and how those donations saved his life after a roadside bomb killed two of his fellow Soldiers and seriously injured him resulting in a left leg through-the-knee amputation, during the Fort Bliss Armed Services Blood Program’s Donor Recognition Ceremony at Army Community Services, Fort Bliss, Texas, March 26. In 2017, the Fort Bliss ASBP held 130 blood drives and collected 3,831 units of red blood cells and 275 units of platelets. Donations are sent overseas to support contingency operations. Fort Bliss ASBP provides about 20 percent of total Army blood requirements in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Department of Defense missions around the world, and to William Beaumont Army Medical Center for daily transfusions at the hospital.
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