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In the near future, air commandos may be able to provide fast blood analysis to their fellow wingmen on the battlefield.
Senior Airman Joseph Tapp, 1st Special Operation Medical Support Squadron lab technician, tests the capabilities of the EPOC, a portable blood analyzer, on Hurlburt Field in December. During the evaluation, personnel conducted various tests on the EPOC to see how it matched to the iSTAT, a blood analyzer model currently employed throughout the Air Force.
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