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Kentucky National Guard answers the call in COVID-19 response
April 3, 2020
Kentucky National Guard Soldiers and Airmen augment the COVID-19 Call Center to manage data collection and case management March 31, 2020.
Georgia Guard disinfecting nursing homes across the state
April 3, 2020
Georgia Army National Guard Soldiers of the Cordele-based Company C, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, disinfect common areas in a long-term care facility in Dawson, Ga., April 2, 2020.
Guard supports local food banks as part of COVID-19 response
April 3, 2020
Master Sgt. Dustin McClure, Washington Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion, inventories canned food at the Issaquah Food Bank in Issaquah, Wash., April 2, 2020. Members of the Washington Air and Army National Guard are supporting food banks around the state during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mass. National Guard moves critical medical supplies
April 3, 2020
Medical supplies are unloaded from the New England Patriots team plane and onto Massachusetts National Guard tactical vehicles for transportation from Logan Airport in Boston, April 2, 2020. The Mass.National Guard is providing logistical support to civil authorities throughout the Commonwealth as part of the battle against COVID-19.
West Virginia Airmen use 3D printing to produce face shields
April 3, 2020
Tech. Sgt. Alan Pasel, an aircraft metals technology specialist assigned to the 130th Maintenance Squadron, with a LulzBot TAZ 6 Dual Platinum 3D printer at McLaughlin Air National Guard Base, Charleston, W.Va., March 27, 2020. Pasel used the printer to design a face shield prototype for production to fulfill a statewide shortage caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Michigan Guard helps food banks during COVID-19 response
April 2, 2020
Michigan Army National Guard Soldiers assist the Feeding America West Michigan food bank, which feeds people in 40 of 83 Michigan counties but was struggling to operate because its volunteers were sent home to protect them from the COVID-19 pandemic, Comstock Park, Michigan, March 31, 2020.
Hawaii National Guard ready for COVID-19 response
April 2, 2020
Airman 1st Class Jolene Chun loads the equipment to screen Hawaii National Guard Soldiers and Airmen preparing to assist in the COVID-19 pandemic March 30, 2020, Honolulu.
Wisconsin National Guard takes on 2 new COVID-19 missions
April 2, 2020
Pfc. Katrina McMartin assembles a side table at Clare Hall on the Saint Francis de Sales Seminary grounds in St. Francis, Wis. Wisconsin National Guard troops helped set up rooms in the building, which serves as an isolation facility for Milwaukee County’s homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maryland Guard distributes more than 1 million medical items
April 2, 2020
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Bradly Tuthill, left, and U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Richard Malloy, ground transportation specialists with the 175th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Maryland Air National Guard, prepare and load boxes of medical supplies and equipment March 19, 2020, at the Maryland Strategic National Stockpile. The Maryland Guard has shipped more than 1 million items to health care workers and hospitals across the state.
Michigan National Guard helps set up FEMA medical station
April 1, 2020
Members of the Michigan National Guard assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency with logistics support to establish a federal medical station at Detroit’s TCF Center, March 31, 2020. The site can be used for patients if hospitals become overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
TN Guard shifts from tornado cleanup to COVID-19 response
April 1, 2020
(Left to right) Sgt. Jacob Winton, Cpl. Justin Chambers, Spc. Austin Barnett, Spc. Jason Bahr, at a COVID-19 remote testing site in Putnam County, Tennessee, March 27. At the request of Bill Lee, 250 Soldiers and Airmen from the Tennessee National Guard have volunteered to provide support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cal Guard members use civilian driving skills to help community
April 1, 2020
U.S. Army Spc. Dylan Ney, a firefighter with the California Army National Guard’s 233rd Engineer Detachment, 340th Brigade Support Battalion, 115th Regional Support Group, is one of about a half-dozen Soldiers stepping up to help the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services by utilizing his civilian truck driving skills.
Army leaders visit COVID-19 screening site in Maryland
April 1, 2020
Lt. Gen. Daniel Hokanson, director of the Army National Guard, washes his hands while touring a COVID-19 screening site at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., March 31, 2020, with Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy, Maryland Adjutant General Maj. Timothy Gowen and Rep. Anthony G. Brown.
California Guard provides critical support to food banks
April 1, 2020
Pvt. Ishmael Rodriguez from the California National Guard's Headquarters Support Company, 340th Brigade Support Battalion, packages produce for delivery to lower-income families and the elderly at the Food Bank for Monterey County in Salinas, California, March 25, 2020.
NY National Guard staffing call center to fight COVID-19
March 31, 2020
Members of the New York Army National Guard discuss procedures at the Coronavirus Hotline call center in Hawthorne, N.Y., March 16, 2020. The New York State Department of Health established a toll-free Coronavirus Hotline (1-888-364-3065).
Iowa, Pa., Del. National Guard in thick of COVID-19 battle
March 31, 2020
Soldiers from the 103rd Engineer Battalion, Pennsylvania National Guard, help the Federal Emergency Management Agency unload equipment at the a school in Glen Mills, Pa., to establish a federal medical station for non-COVID 19 patients should regional hospitals become full.
West Virginia Guard helps state fight spread of coronavirus
March 31, 2020
Members of the West Virginia National Guard help volunteers package and deliver meals for more than 3,600 school-age students throughout Greenbrier County during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, March 25, 2020, in Lewisburg, West Virginia.
Michigan National Guard staffs food banks in 4 communities
March 31, 2020
Michigan National Guard members support the distribution of food for families in need during the state’s response to COVID-19 at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan, Flint, Mich., March 30, 2020. About 40 Michigan Guard members are helping at four Michigan food banks for several weeks.
178th Wing analysts serve Ohioans in response to COVID19
March 31, 2020
Senior Airman Elise, an analyst assigned to the 178th Wing, analyzes a map of counties throughout Ohio March 30, 2020, at the Defense Supply Center Columbus. Elise is serving on the Joint Task Force 37 collecting data on coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and available hospital resources across the state, as well as providing weather and route information for the JTF-37 task forces supporting local food banks.
MD Guard sets up medical station in COVID-19 response
March 31, 2020
Army Pfc. NDeye Diongue, assigned to the Maryland Army National Guard’s 1297th Support Battalion, assembles a cot and bedding as she and other Soldiers set up a federal medical station in the Baltimore Convention CenterMarch 28, 2020. The station was set up to alleviate possible overcrowding at area hospitals as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.