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Cal Guard slows the spread of COVID-19 with telework
May 20, 2020
A California National Guard full-time technician works from home May 20, 2020, at Huntington Beach, California. Many Cal Guard full-time staff members are teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way of protecting themselves, their coworkers and high-risk family members from the virus.
Cal National Guard welder sews face masks to combat COVID-19
May 14, 2020
U.S. Army Sgt. Edwin Rodriguez, a welder at the California National Guard's combined support maintenance shop, sews face masks for other Soldiers on a vintage sewing machine, April 23, 2020, inside the Long Beach, California, facility. Rodriguez found and repaired two of the shop's three vintage sewing machines before putting his civilian skills as a former upholstery technician to work sewing masks.
Cal Guard member's civilian skills get troops to missions
May 14, 2020
U.S. Army Spc. Koby Riggan, a radio technician with the California Army National Guard’s 270th Military Police Company, works on a Humvee, April 28, 2020, at the Cal Guard's Field Maintenance Shop 22, in Sacramento. The Cal Guard has been using these vehicles to support humanitarian missions throughout the state.
Chaplains reach out to Cal Guard members fighting COVID-19
April 30, 2020
U.S. Air Force Maj. Edward Ganigan, center, a chaplain from the 163d Attack Wing, California Air National Guard, prays for soldiers of the California Army National Guard’s 315th Vertical Construction Company and staff members of the FIND Desert Regional Food Bank in Indio, California, April 29, 2020.
Cal Guard's 40th ID honors WWII veteran on 105th birthday
April 28, 2020
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Sam Sachs watches a parade from his front porch during a celebration in honor of his 105th birthday in Lakewood, California, April 26, 2020. Sachs was an officer with the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, and landed his glider on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.
Rookie Cal Guard member embraces COVID-19 role
April 2, 2020
His military career is only weeks-old, but California Army National Guard Pfc. Muhammad Fayzan Izhar is embracing his work helping at a Sacramento food bank in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pakistan native completed his initial entry training in February.