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NY Army Guard members reflect on Javits Center COVID-19 response
April 23, 2020
Soldiers with the New York Army National Guard’s 133rd Composite Supply Company move equipment while setting up an alternate care facility at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, March 25, 2020. The medical station can handle more than 4,000 patients and is staffed with more than 2,200 personnel from every branch of the U.S. military and city, state and federal agencies.
Washington National Guard assisting food banks across state
April 23, 2020
Washington Army National Guard members pack boxes of food at the Food Lifeline temporary site in Seattle April 21, 2020. Members of the Washington Air and Army National Guard are supporting food banks around the state during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Louisiana National Guard distributes food to elderly
April 23, 2020
Louisiana National Guard Spc. Nicholas Campbell, with the 1022nd Engineer Company, 225th Engineer Brigade, carries boxes of food to put in an elderly person’s car in Colfax, Louisiana, April 22, 2020.
Texas Guard converts barracks into isolation facilities
April 23, 2020
Texas Army Sgt. Keith Huffstuttler, a team leader with Task Force 176’s 840th Engineering Mobility Augmentation Company, installs curtains to separate beds in Camp Swift barracks to adapt them into medical isolation support facilities in Bastrop, Texas, April 17, 2020. The isolation facility is for Soldiers, Airmen and State Guardsmen suspected of having COVID-19.
Pennsylvania National Guard opens COVID-19 testing site
April 23, 2020
Pvt. Jerimya Stoner, lane decontamination specialist with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, removes his gloves while in the decontamination tent at the COVID-19 testing site at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 20, 2020.
Wing alert mission exhibits strength amid war on COVID-19
April 23, 2020
U.S. Air Force Maj. Jordan Wilkie, a pilot from the 120th Fighter Squadron, 140th Wing, Colorado Air National Guard, prepares to launch an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft for a practice alert scramble at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., March 31, 2020.
Operation Deep Freeze: maintaining the mission
April 23, 2020
Airmen assigned to the 189th Maintenance Group, Arkansas National Guard, performed temporary duty in Antarctica in support of the 109th Airlift Wing, New York National Guard, and the Department of Defense's Operation Deep Freeze. The crew prepared and maintained the 109th AW's C-130J "Snowbirds" and assisted with supply transport and medical evacuation readiness.
Oregon Guard helps get PPE to tribes
April 23, 2020
Brig. Gen. William Prendergast IV, Oregon Army National Guard land component commander, with members of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, April 21, 2020, at the Warm Springs reservation, Warm Springs, Oregon. The Oregon National Guard was invited to visit the tribe and discuss working together to support personal protective equipment (PPE) needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
1-221 Cavalry steps up to support Las Vegas hospitals
April 23, 2020
Soldiers of the Nevada Army National Guard receive medical supplies at a warehouse east of Sparks, Nevada, as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response in the Silver State. More than 1,000 Nevada National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are helping fight COVID-19 across the state.
Virgin Islands Guard helping convert compound for patient use
April 23, 2020
The Virgin Islands National Guard is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the government of the Virgin Islands to convert the 210th Regional Training Institute, shown April 21, 2020, to an alternate care facility that can serve as many as 46 COVID-19 patients.
Guard chief chaplain: Resiliency key in COVID-19 response
April 22, 2020
Maryland Army National Guard chaplains organized a COVID-19 response team to help the nonprofit City of Refuge Baltimore distribute food to members of the Baltimore community March 26, 2020.
Connecticut Guard coordinates critical supply distribution
April 22, 2020
Pallets of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies are received, organized and distributed to hospitals and medical personnel from a warehouse in New Britain operated by the Connecticut National Guard.
South Carolina National Guard helps feed the needy
April 22, 2020
U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers with Joint Task Force 59, South Carolina National Guard, support Oliver Gospel in serving meals and maintaining social distancing for the homeless community in Columbia, South Carolina, April 14, 2020.
Maryland National Guard provides meals for homeless
April 22, 2020
Maryland National Guard members are preparing and delivering meals to an emergency encampment of homeless people in Salisbury, Maryland, who have been displaced due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 25-day mission brought together Soldiers from three military police units of the 115th Military Police Battalion.
Military members honor veteran who died at NY field hospital
April 22, 2020
New York Army National Guard Sgt. Major Nicholas Pardi, a member of the 104th Military Police Battalion, presents an American flag during an impromptu memorial service for a veteran who died of COVID-19 while a patient at the Javits New York Medical Station in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, April 19, 2020.
Colorado Guard helps test long-term care patients, staff
April 22, 2020
Colorado National Guard members from the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield explosive Enhanced Response Force Package prepare a drive-up COVID-19 testing site in Montrose County, Colorado, March 23, 2020. More than 400 CONG members are mobilized to help Colorado fight COVID-19.
Indiana National Guard conducts patient transport training
April 22, 2020
Indiana National Guard troops from the 38th Infantry Division conducted patient transport training at the Johnson County National Guard Armory on April 16, 2020.
W.Va. Guard has first DoD-approved mobile COVID-19 test lab
April 22, 2020
West Virginia Army National Guard 1st Lt. Samantha Fabian, commander of the 1201st Forward Support Company, in front of a mobile COVID-19 testing lab in Morgantown April 21, 2020. Fabian is the program director who leads the mobile laboratories.
Oklahoma Guard distributes medical supplies from stockpile
April 21, 2020
Oklahoma National Guard members from throughout the state check medical supply orders while assigned to the Strategic National Stockpile in Oklahoma City, April 20, 2020. Nearly 30 Guard members are helping fulfill, secure and transport critical supplies to facilities throughout the state.
Florida Guard aids COVID-19 testing at veterans nursing home
April 21, 2020
A Florida National Guard Soldier from the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team tests staff member for COVID-19 at a state veterans nursing facility. The FLNG is responding to COVID-19 by conducting on-site testing at assisted living and nursing home facilities.