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NJ Guard, active-duty troops set up COVID-19 ops center
May 6, 2020
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Jardinico works in the New Jersey National Guard’s Joint Operations Center in the Homeland Security Center of Excellence, Lawrenceville, N.J., April 22, 2020. New Jersey Soldiers and Airmen, as well as active duty Air Force and Coast Guard members and civilians from U.S. Northern Command are working together in the center to support the state’s response efforts to COVID-19.
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.
Maryland National Guard member stands tall against COVID-19
May 5, 2020
Second Lt. Justin Lee, a medical-surgical nurse with the 104th Medical Company Area Support, speaks to the director of nursing and the director in training at the Crofton Care & Rehabilitation Center in Crofton, Md., April 9, 2020. (Sgt. James Nowell)
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.
Guard Soldier responds to 3rd NYC emergency in 20-year career
May 5, 2020
New York Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Maloney at the Javits New York Medical Station in New York, May 3, 2020. Malone is on his third emergency deployment in New York. He responded to the 9/11 attacks and to the response to Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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.
Kentucky Guard maintains SPP ties despite COVID-19
May 4, 2020
Maj. Jonathan Holliday, Kentucky National Guard Bilateral Affairs Officer (third from left), with U.S. Embassy local staff and Forces Armees Djiboutian (FAD) personnel in Djibouti.
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.
Michigan Airman provides PPE to frontline workers
May 4, 2020
Staff Sgt. Jacob Rader, an operations intelligence analyst, 110th Operations Group, Battle Creek Air National Guard Base, Michigan, provides comfort to those on the front line by using his 3D printer and donating his time and resources to create face shields for those in need.
Iowa Guard Soldier helps community with virtual instruction
May 4, 2020
Spc. Taylor Lenhart, a military police Soldier with the 186th Military Police Company, Iowa Army National Guard, helps move a traffic barrier in Des Moines April 27, 2020. Lenhart is one of 60 military police Soldiers supporting the first drive-through COVID-19 testing site in Iowa. Before duty, Lenhart helps her community as a karate instructor by providing virtual classes.
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.
104th Fighter Wing Wellness Team answers the call for help
May 4, 2020
Lisa Potito, wellness team coordinator, right, and Mary Keeler, sexual assault response coordinator, left, The 104th Fighter Wing Wellness Team, help distribute food at a nonprofit farmers market that is free for the military, April 4, 2020.
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.