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JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The Tripler Army Medical Center and the Armed Services Blood Program recognized volunteers and blood donors, including Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s 3rd Radio Battalion, at the 11th Annual Donor Appreciation Luncheon at the Hickam Officers’ Club, March 18, 2015.
From May 2014 through February, 3rd Radio Bn. held four blood drives at the battalion aid station, collecting a total of 304 pints of blood.
Chief Petty Officer Luis Martinez, hospital corpsman, 3rd Radio Bn., was one of the unit blood drive coordinators who accepted the award on the unit’s behalf. Martinez, of Eloy, Ariz., made sure emails were sent out to the Marines and sent a corpsman to different offices to get people to sign up for a time to donate.
“The credit should go to the Marines of 3rd Radio Battalion,” Martinez said. “It’s the Marines (who) say yes, I’ll sign up. They are the ones (who) filled up the slots.”
While the Tripler Army Medical Center staff brought incentives from snacks to T-shirts during each blood drive, Martinez said with the help of the unit chaplain, the unit also made waffles with banana slices and whipped cream for donors.
“We had such good participation with our Marines (that) we kept on contacting them to scheduled future blood drives,” said Navy Lt. Nicole Meunier, the medical officer for 3rd Radio Bn. “We’re just excited that we’re able to support Tripler, and we’re proud that our Marines really value the importance of donating blood.”
Meunier, of Orlando, Fla., is the blood drive site coordinator for 3rd Radio Bn. She worked with the battalion operations section to determine the best dates most Marines from the unit could potentially be available to donate blood.
Meunier added that the unit encourages spouses to donate blood as well. In addition to future blood drives, she said the unit will also be recruiting bone marrow donors.
| Date Taken: | 03.27.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.27.2015 21:23 |
| Story ID: | 158432 |
| Location: | JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HI, US |
| Hometown: | ELOY, AZ, US |
| Hometown: | ORLANDO, FL, US |
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