Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, is technician with the apheresis program at the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, goes through the lengthy process of testing blood from donors at the blood testing section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, goes through the lengthy process of testing blood from donors at the blood testing section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, goes through the lengthy process of testing blood from donors at the blood testing section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

A U.S. Air Force member prepares a platelets donation for storage at the NATO Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Blood platelets are donated here at the Role 3 hospital in order to help trauma patients who are injured in combat. The apheresis section is managed by a U.S. Air Force five-member team that collects platelets from repeat donors, which in turn is used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients at the Role 3 hospital and 14 Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Navy Hospitalman 2nd Class Ashley Tapia squeezes a ball to help flood flow in her arm while she donates platelets at the apheresis section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. The apheresis section is managed by a U.S. Air Force five-member team that collects platelets from repeat donors, which in turn is used to help trauma patients at the Role 3 hospital and 14 Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)