ASBP: National Capital Region Blood Donor Centers

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Welcome to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Blood Donor Center website. As part of the Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP),the official United States military blood program, your donation serves as a vital link to military service members and their families worldwide.

The Walter Reed Blood Donor Center will close August 2011 to realign with the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda Blood Bank, and will reopen as the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Blood Donor Center. This is part of the Base Realignment and Closure process. The new facility will support blood collections on-base, at the Pentagon and Fort Belvoir.

We thank you for your patience during this time of transition. Your selfless support of the Armed Services Blood Program helps keep our military service members and their families healthy, and help bring our fellow service members home.

Story Archive

Marilyn Durso donates blood at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., with her son, Greg, a platoon leader with the 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, N.Y., by her side. 1st Lt. Durso recently returned to the U.S. from deployment in Afghanistan. He and his mother visited three of his friends recovering from severe injuries at Walter Reed.

Warriors Come from Warriors: A Mother's Perspective
Marilyn Durso cherishes a Mother's Day gift that she calls "a sweet acknowledgment from a son to his mother." It's a shirt with the words "Warriors Come From...

After the pharmacy, laboratory and radiology departments battled it out to see who could send the most donors to the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Blood Donor Center, the radiology department took home the prize. (From left to right) Staff Sgt. Christopher Stackhouse, Sgt. 1st Class Stormy Knowles, Lt. Cmdr. Michael Devan, Sgt. Derek Carnicom, Staff Sgt. James Ascraft and Spc. Alesia Davis accept the award for winning the Blood Battle.

Blood Battle at Belvoir
After the 2011 Army-Navy Blood Donor Challenge, the spirit of competition was running high at the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital blood donor center. So recently,...

Retired Navy Cmdr. David Smith donates platelets at the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital every two weeks—always with a smile.

Platelet Donor Sticks With Us
Retired Navy Cmdr. David Swift has been a regular platelet donor with the ASBP for quite some time. He started donating in Bethesda, Md., but when his wife was...