Story by Giavana Scott & Gianna Gubitosa

On October 26, 2022, Brick Memorial AFJROTC held a blood drive hosted by The American Red Cross. This evoked many students’ participation. Forty-eight units of blood were collected, which can impact up to 144 lives. Donating blood does not only positively affect the recipient but the donor as well. Donors’ risk of cancer is reduced, it is beneficial for the human heart, boosts the production of red blood cells, lowers cholesterol, helps weight loss, and aids in fighting hemochromatosis. The NJ-822 cadets based out of Brick Memorial aided the red cross, in providing donors with water, juice, and snacks, as well as signing people in and walking donors to the recovery mat. 

We are so incredibly grateful to the students who took time out of class to save lives!