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English: After a recent insurgent attack in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq, blood is quickly needed for an injured service member at Camp Taqaddum, located in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. As the camp's main surgical facility, Taqaddum Surgical handles the sudden influx of patients, as Chief Petty Officer Wilfredo C. Panis, administration chief, helps Marines, sailors and soldiers prepare the necessary paperwork to donate. Often, personnel here will show up within five minutes of the request going out, said Cmdr. Richard L. Schroff, officer in charge of Taqaddum Surgical. Since taking over the facility, Panis, a 39-year-old native of Temecula, Calif., and the rest of the unit have used the emergency blood donation system seven times, including a stretch of four out of five days recently. Taqaddum Surgical handles the duties of both a shock trauma platoon and a forward resuscitative surgical suite, which are essentially makeshift emergency and operating rooms. When a service member is injured in battle, he receives specialized resuscitative treatment from the STP, with surgery provided by the FRSS. More extensive care is provided at one of the Combat Army Surgical Hospitals in Baghdad or Balad.