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National Guard members share test results in many languages
May 29, 2020
Wisconsin National Guard Spc. Erick Carranza informs people of COVID-19 test results in English or Spanish from a call center in Madison in May 2020. Thirty Guard Airmen and Soldiers are staffing the call center, with 16 of them bilingual in Spanish, Hmong, Portuguese, French, Mandarin Chinese, or German.
Missouri National Guard delivers school lunches
May 29, 2020
Spc. Ross Schlichting, left, and Staff Sgt. Vernon Long, with the 1221st Transport Company, Missouri National Guard, pack school lunches for delivery April 27, 2020, at Osage County R-II School, Linn, Missouri. Nearly 200 Guardsmen are assisting schools with distribution and delivery of food to students in communities across the state as part of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
New York National Guard delivers 16.6 million meals
May 29, 2020
New York Army National Guard Pvt. Mathew Burke, left, from Mechanicville and Pfc. Janelle McKoy from New Windsor, both assigned to the 104th Military Police Battalion, deliver COVID-19 test kits to a nursing facility in The Bronx May 26, 2020.
Oklahoma Guard supports statewide COVID-19 contact tracing
May 28, 2020
A member of the Oklahoma Army National Guard checks his list of contacts before making a phone call as part of contact tracing operations at the Texas County Health Department in Guymon, Oklahoma, May 15, 2020, in a multi-agency effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
Iowa National Guard helps set up COVID-19 test site
May 28, 2020
Iowa Air National Guard Senior Airman Manuel Zertuche, a 185th Air Refueling Wing medical technician, works with medical staff to administer a COVID-19 test at the Sioux Center, Iowa, “TestIowa” site May 27, 2020.
Oklahoma National Guard Airmen support food bank
May 28, 2020
Staff Sgt. Nathan McElrath, a member of the 138th Fighter Wing, Oklahoma National Guard, loads food into a truck at a mobile food pantry May 13, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Due to COVID-19, Guard members have been working at food banks to replace the vital volunteer force they rely on, until it is safe to have them return.
Kansas National Guard serves up millions of meals
May 28, 2020
Spc. Dondi Jones, Company A, 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, measures out food in a boxed-meal assembly line operation in Leawood, Kansas, May 1, 2020. Kansas National Guard Soldiers, through The Outreach Program, packaged more than 2 million meals to be distributed to food banks across Kansas.
Oregon Guard helps deliver masks for agricultural workers
May 28, 2020
Members of the Oregon Army National Guard delivered and helped distribute thousands of face coverings for agricultural workers at the Polk County fairgrounds in Rickreall May 27, 2020. The Guard collaborated with the Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon University Extension.
AER expands assistance eligibility for Guard, Reserve
May 28, 2020
Spc. Colton Fenton and Spc. Kellen Korf with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 248th Aviation Support Battalion, Iowa Army National Guard, operate a traffic control checkpoint at a pop-up COVID-19 testing site at West Middle School in Muscatine, Iowa, April 30, 2020. Almost 46,000 National Guard troops are assisting their states in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and many are now eligible for financial assistance from Army Emergency Relief.
132d Wing Airmen provide COVID-19 screening
May 27, 2020
132d Medical Group Airmen with the Iowa National Guard conducted COVID-19 screening May 14, 2020, at a Joint Mobile Screening Center in Denison, Iowa. The Airmen worked with Army National Guard Soldiers to test Iowans in Crawford County.