Maj. Gen. Edward D. Phelka, CAP’s national commander and CEO, gave blood on January 16 at a donor site near his Michigan home as part of Operation Pulse Lift campaign to collect blood for the American Red Cross. [Courtesy: Civil Air Patrol]
Key Takeaways:
This week, the Civil Air Patrol’s “Operation Pulse Lift” mission reached a major milestone by collecting its 10,000th blood unit.
Barb Clevenger of Mesa, Arizona, donated the milestone blood at an emergency blood center at the patrol’s Falcon Composite Squadron 305.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
