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My name is Lieutenant Mchale . I'm a

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platoon leader over in the third

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expeditionary sustainment command under

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18 Air Corps operation Ring . The Bell

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was started initially by Special Sutton

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down at Fort Bliss and it's ballooned

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to about 10 different installations

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across the army , getting fellow

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soldiers on this national Bone Marrow

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Registry . What that does is when

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somebody is diagnosed with a disease

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that requires them to get chemotherapy ,

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their bone marrow gets negatively

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affected and so oftentimes they need a

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bone marrow transplant . And so this

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national registry identifies matches

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for those people so that when in time

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of need , they can get a bone marrow

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transplant . So to get on the National

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Bone Marrow Registry , you can go to

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salute to life dot org and doing so you

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can personally donate or you can reach

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out to Mr Chad Balance , who is the

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national volunteer coordinator to

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actually execute a drive at your level

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so that you can also get fellow

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soldiers registered as well .