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Michigan National Guard Soldiers helping first responders
May 6, 2020
Sgt. Adam Szabo, 1431st Sapper Combat Engineer, Michigan Army National Guard, delivers personal protective equipment in Munising, Michigan, April 29, 2020. The Michigan National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are actively supporting the state's COVID-19 response.
Washington Air Guard member helps NYC medical examiner
May 5, 2020
Members of the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, the New York Army National Guard and the Health and Human Services Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team at the New York medical examiner's office in April 2020. Lt. Col. Simpson, the Headquarters Washington Air National Guard’s director of force support, worked on this team as a DMORT medicolegal investigator as part of the Health and Human Services COVID-19 response.
Chaplains spread hope amid COVID-19 crisis
May 5, 2020
Chaplains with the Indiana National Guard are seeing Guard members across the state by providing resiliency training on mission sites April 24, 2020. Visiting service members and providing training is one way chaplains are able to help the morale of members of the Guard serving on the front lines against COVID-19.
Wisconsin Guard conducts mobile testing around state
May 5, 2020
Wisconsin National Guard members prepare to collect a specimen from a member of the community in Alma May 1, 2020. Nearly a dozen Wisconsin National Guard teams are supporting specimen collection missions at mobile COVID-19 testing sites around Wisconsin.
NY National Guard Soldiers aid at rural drive-thru dairy
May 5, 2020
New York Army National Guard Pfc. Colton Emmett, an infantryman assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment, hands out care packages while distributing food in Delhi, N.Y., April 30, 2020. The Soldiers assisted volunteers as they sorted, packaged and handed out numerous dairy products at a drive-through donation center.
Oklahoma Guard has virtual send-off before deploying
May 5, 2020
Maj. Gen. Michael Thompson, adjutant general for Oklahoma, addresses Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 158th Field Artillery Regiment, 45th Field Artillery Brigade, who are deploying in support of coalition operations in the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations. The May 3 ceremony was livestreamed so friends and family could watch remotely due to the threat of spreading COVID-19 to the deploying Soldiers.
West Virginia Guard trains public in proper use of PPE
May 4, 2020
Sgt. 1st Class Brian Tomasek with the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise collects swabs from a conference room after it was sanitized with a Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide system as part of a demonstration of its disinfection capabilities at the West Virginia Capitol Complex in Charleston, West Virginia, April 29, 2020.
Oklahoma Guard joins veterans in fight against COVID-19
May 4, 2020
Oklahoma Army National Guard members speak with a resident of the Norman Veterans Center in Norman, Oklahoma, April 29, 2020. Members of the Guard disinfected commonly touched surfaces and high traffic areas at the center.
Alaska Airmen rescue two people stranded in Kuskokwim River
May 4, 2020
An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, assigned to the 210th Rescue Squadron, takes off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 23, 2015. The 210th Rescue Squadron provides emergency rescue services in addition to training for wartime combat search-and-rescue missions.
Kansas National Guard stands up Joint Task Force
May 4, 2020
Maj. James Marshall, health services human resource officer, Kansas Medical Detachment, prepares for an interview with Guard media to discuss the Joint Task Force in Topeka, Kansas, April 30, 2020.
These Soldiers keep 28th ECAB safe as they prepare to deploy
May 4, 2020
Staff Sgt. Raymond Mutiso, left, a combat medic with the 108th Area Medical Support Company, 213th Regional Support Group, and Spc. Padric Marianos, a construction engineer with the PAARNG Training Center, outside the 28th ECAB Armory. The 28th ECAB is to deploy soon and must gather for training. Soldiers like Mutiso and Marianos screen 28th ECAB Soldiers to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the formation.
WADS Airmen support Food Lifeline COVID-19 response center
May 4, 2020
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Bradley, left, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Jensen, right, both assigned to the 225th Air Defense Squadron, prepare food boxes at the Food Lifeline COVID Response warehouse April 23, 2020, in Seattle. More than 250 members of the Washington National Guard are assigned to the warehouse to prepare, on average, 268 boxes an hour per line.
Northeast Indiana Guard Soldiers serve their community
May 4, 2020
Soldiers and Airmen from the Indiana National Guard assisted the Indiana State Department of Health and local agencies at 18 new COVID-19 study test sites from April 25-29, 2020. The initiative by Gov. Eric Holcomb and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health aimed to examine the prevalence of COVID-19 among Hoosiers.
NY Guard delivers 4.5 million meals, half-million test kits
May 4, 2020
New York Army National Guard Soldiers, from left, Spc. Davier Weste, Spc. Cody Roche and Staff Sgt. Andre Hayden, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 258th Field Artillery, part of the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, load cars with meals at the Queens Food Distribution Site May 2, 2020. The meals will be delivered to people who are quarantined and unable to go shopping.
Florida National Guard assists nurses with mobile testing
May 2, 2020
Registered nurses with the Florida Department of Health perform a specimen collection on a patient at a Northeast Florida nursing home, May 1, 2020.
Oklahoma Guard supports Health Department with COVID-19 testing
May 2, 2020
Oklahoma Army National Guard Sgt. Aaron Moore (right), a combat medic/healthcare specialist with Detachment 1, Headquarters Company, 120th Engineer Battalion, 90th Troop Command, matches paperwork to a test sample with a nurse from the Oklahoma City County Health Department.
N.C. Guard helps distribute food during COVID-19 response
May 2, 2020
North Carolina National Guard Soldiers assigned to 2-130 Airfield Operations Battalion, 449th Theater Aviation Brigade, load boxes of food into vehicles while helping Action Pathways Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina distribute food in Raeford, N.C. on May 5, 2020.
Cal Guard surpasses milestone packaging 15 million meals
May 2, 2020
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua A. Mosley, left, and Staff Sgt. Chris Petrossian, both of the California Army National Guard’s 115th Regional Support Group, load food items into a volunteer’s truck to distribute to Napa Valley residents who are homebound during the COVID-19 crisis while working at Pope Valley Farm Center in St. Helena, California, April 1, 2020.
Delaware National Guard helps food bank feed families
May 1, 2020
Spc. Vassindou Kamagate, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Brian Turner, horizontal construction engineers with the Delaware Army National Guard's 160th Engineer Company, distribute canned goods at a drive-thru mobile pantry in Newark, Delaware, April 20, 2020.
Cal Guard assists rapid assessment clinic for COVID-19
May 1, 2020
U.S. Army Spc. Jason Prieto, a combat medic with the California Army National Guard’s 315th Vertical Construction Company, assesses a patient at the walk-up medical clinic at Long Beach City College’s Pacific Coast Campus, Long Beach, California, April 17, 2020.