Lab on alert
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Kristi Hales, 332nd Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron lab technician, examines small vials of blood after they have been put through a spinning process to determine the blood type here, June 5. Before giving blood products to trauma patients a blood type must be established to ensure the wrong type is not given. Airman Hales is deployed from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)