Story by Debralee Lutgen | 84th Training Command | 08.28.2018
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – It started as a simple blood draw. It ended with a young teenager making a full recovery from leukemia. Twelve years later, the donor and recipient met face-to-face....
Story by Marcy Sanchez | William Beaumont Army Medical Center | 04.20.2017
A new procedure at William Beaumont Army Medical Center is opening doors for patients with severe reconstructive needs which are repercussions from cancer, trauma or other deforming events....
Story by Marcy Sanchez | William Beaumont Army Medical Center | 08.02.2016
In January of 2015, Spc. Santino Ayala, who was then stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, began shaking uncontrollably....
Story by Lt. Col. Tad Fichtel | U.S. Army Reserve Command | 05.07.2015
First Lt. Shauna Dool, a full-time graduate student at the University of North Carolina and an officer in the Army Reserve, is donating a kidney to Sgt. Maj. Miguel Filpo, an Active Duty Soldier injured in Iraq. Although she barely knew him, Dool feels she is helping a fellow Soldier and her country....
Story by Sgt. Michael Grimm | 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division | 05.19.2014
A Fort Bliss spouse traveled across the country to save a life. April Scott, the wife of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jeffery Scott, unit movement officer for 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, traveled to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta to donate a kidney to her son’s former fifth grade teacher, Stephanie Barnes. The transplant will give Barnes a second chance at life....
Story by Senior Airman Mary O'Dell | 92nd Air Refueling Wing | 02.01.2014
London Bowater, daughter of Tech. Sgt. Nick Bowater, Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape instructor, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in February 2011. Just over three months away from completing treatment, her family received devastating news that her cancer had returned....
Story by Sgt. Amy Wieser-Willson | North Dakota National Guard Public Affairs | 11.04.2011
In the most simplistic military sense, it’s a reallocation of assets. The story of how one North Dakota guardsman’s kidney now filters the blood in his battle buddy’s body, however, isn’t nearly that basic. It spans two Afghanistan deployments, about 17 months of dialysis, worried family members, painful surgeries and an incredible amount of “selfless service.”...
Story by Senior Master Sgt. David Lipp | North Dakota National Guard Public Affairs | 11.03.2011
Spc. John Chase wasn’t feeling the best when he came home on a two-week leave from his second deployment to Afghanistan in May 2010. He took his family on vacation to Walt Disney World Resort, but just before he was to return to his fellow Guardsmen with the North Dakota National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 188th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, he discovered what was ailing him: his kidneys......
