Soldier donates marrow Sgt. 1st Class Jorge Cruz, operations
noncommissioned officer-in-charge, U.S. Army Garrison-Oahu,
flashes a 'shaka' as he is wheeled out of the operating room at
Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Through a
simple surgery, Cruz donated bone marrow for a family member in
need.  SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - A simple swipe of the mouth
with a cotton swab more than five months ago led Sgt. 1st Class
Jorge Cruz on a life-saving adventure 5,000 miles away.  Cruz,
an operations noncommissioned officer in charge (NCOIC), U.S.
Army Garrison-Oahu, was a participant in the C.W. Bill Young
Department of Defense (DoD) Bone Marrow Program held here in
May. Along with hundreds of other donors, Cruz's DNA was sampled
by scraping a Q-tip inside his cheek, and sent to a lab in
Washington, D.C.  In July, Cruz was contacted because he was a
possible match and began the process to determine whether or not
he could donate. Numerous questionnaires, blood samples and
doctors' appointments follo