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USTRANSCOM sponsors blood drive

Release #120703-1 posted on Jul 3, 2012
Phlebotomist Rachael Honnen, prepares blood samples for various tests prior to Sgt. 1st Class Michael Schwartz' blood donation, June 28, during a USTRANSCOM blood drive.  Donations were taken by technicians of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center which supplies blood to all St. Clair County hospitals.  Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

Phlebotomist Rachael Honnen, prepares blood samples for various tests prior to Sgt. 1st Class Michael Schwartz' blood donation, June 28, during a USTRANSCOM blood drive. Donations were taken by technicians of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center which supplies blood to all St. Clair County hospitals. Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

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Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Schwartz, SDDC, relaxes as he donates blood June 28, during a USTRANSCOM blood drive.  Donations were taken by technicians of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center which supplies blood to all St. Clair County hospitals.  Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Schwartz, SDDC, relaxes as he donates blood June 28, during a USTRANSCOM blood drive. Donations were taken by technicians of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center which supplies blood to all St. Clair County hospitals. Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

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Apheresis technician Angie Hurst prepares USMC Lt. Col. Rudy Quiles for a  blood donation, June 28, during a USTRANSCOM blood drive.  Donations were taken by technicians of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center which supplies blood to all St. Clair County hospitals.  Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

Apheresis technician Angie Hurst prepares USMC Lt. Col. Rudy Quiles for a blood donation, June 28, during a USTRANSCOM blood drive. Donations were taken by technicians of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center which supplies blood to all St. Clair County hospitals. Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center brought one of its mobile collection units to U.S. Transportation Command, June 28, for a command-sponsored blood drive. 

Civilian and military workers from USTRANSCOM and Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command donated blood throughout the day.

Technicians from the center, which supplies blood to all St. Clair County hospitals, took the donations. 

Donors received T-shirts and a pair of Gateway Grizzlies baseball tickets.

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