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- Blood is life,

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without blood, life not sustained,

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so it's important that we always have

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a constant supply of blood.

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(upbeat music)

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- We've asked Major Jim Berk

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to come here to 2nd Medical Battalion

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and kinda teach us the way the army

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does their pre-screening blood drives

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for the Walking Blood Bank.

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The goal of the drive is to identify the most ideal

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or the most safe individuals with an deploying

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or soon to be deploy unit.

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- When you get down range you have somebody that

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is injured, if the blood supply is not available

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or even exhausted due to demand,

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you have an ever ready blood supply in your personal.

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So the safety of that deploying unit increases tremendously.

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- For pre-screening, the marines that come through here

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and what we're just doing infectious disease testing.

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- What the marines are learning today is how to

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take this program with them

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and take them wherever they need to go.

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These marines will know how to set up

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^this similar process and implement it

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^in times of need for blood.

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- It's a collaboration, it's one of the services.

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The marine core, the navy, and the army

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have come together to implement a new procedure,

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a new way of doing things,

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so that, in the future, we're better ready.