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A Marine seated and wearing a face mask donates blood while a woman wearing a face mask and gloves bends over holding a syringe.

Blood Donation

Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Hedrick, a regimental operations chief with the Combat Logistics Regiment 37, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, donates blood during a COVID-19 antibody research study conducted by Naval Medical Research Unit-2 on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 9, 2021. The purpose of the study is to understand how widespread COVID-19 infections are throughout the United States and Indo-Pacific Command.

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