Pastor Frank Riley has seen the true power of a blood donation — not in a lab or a hospital, but on the front lines. During his 18 years in the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, he deployed around the world, but one moment in Ghanzi, Afghanistan, forever changed the way he viewed giving blood. “A terribly wounded service member was coming in and there was a need for blood,” Frank said. “Throughout the operating base, the call went out over loudspeakers and everywhere for people with a certain type of blood. I watched as people ran from different parts of the base to get there. It was desperate. It was urgent.” The first time Frank donated blood himself was in 2008 at a blood drive hosted by the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Through that donation, discovered he has a rare blood type that can be used to help babies and immunocompromised patients. He’s part of a small group of adults with blood that doesn’t contain cytomegalovirus (CMV), which can be fatal for infants and people with we...