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Cal Guard helps run 2 homeless shelters in Long Beach
April 24, 2020
U.S. Army Spc. Courtney Casale of the California Army National Guard’s 250th Intelligence Battalion provides an extra set of eyes on residents' possessions at the Silverado Community Center temporary homeless shelter in Long Beach, California, April 16, 2020. Cal Guard Soldiers are helping staff two temporary shelters set up as part of the city’s COVID-19 response.
Polish military medical team joins Illinois' virus response
April 24, 2020
Nine members of the Polish military’s Medical Corps arrive in Chicago to support the state’s response to COVID-19 April 23, 2020. The Polish doctors, nurses, and emergency medical technicians recently treated COVID-19 patients in Italy and Poland. They are visiting Illinois as part of the Illinois National Guard’s State Partnership Program with the Polish military.
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.