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Air Guard Religious Support Team aids Javits Center mission
May 8, 2020 — ARLINGTON, Va. – From taking part in online video sermons to providing socially distanced religious and spiritual support, creativity and flexibility were key for the New York Air National Guard’s...

Wisconsin National Guard helping at alternate care facility
April 27, 2020 — WEST ALLIS, Wis. — Multiple Wisconsin National Guard teams are at the new alternate care facility (ACF) at State Fair Park to lend a hand, part of a Guard force of more than 1,000 members supporting...

NY Army Guard members reflect on Javits Center COVID-19 response
April 23, 2020 — ARLINGTON, Va. – For Spc. Dwayne Richards, an information technology specialist with the New York Army National Guard’s 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion, being on duty at New York City’s Jacob K...

1-221 Cavalry steps up to support Las Vegas hospitals
April 23, 2020 — LAS VEGAS – Soldiers with the Nevada Army National Guard’s 1-221 Cavalry helped local hospitals transport, set up and secure tents for overflow patient care in one of many COVID-19 missions.More than...

Virgin Islands Guard helping convert compound for patient use
April 23, 2020 — ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands – The Virgin Islands National Guard is working with the government of the Virgin Islands and federal partners to convert the 210th Regional Training Institute at the...

Guard member supports COVID-19 response at her university
April 22, 2020 — NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – A campus typically busy with students and staff in late April sits mostly dormant as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Central Connecticut State University, like many others, to...

Florida Guard partners with university on COVID-19 mission
April 20, 2020 — MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Florida National Guard doctors, nurses and medics joined Florida International University (FIU) at the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) to conduct refresher training to prepare...

Pennsylvania National Guard helps set up alternate care site
April 17, 2020 — EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers helped the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Health establish an alternate care site at East...

Colorado National Guard helps set up medical shelter
April 17, 2020 — CENTENNIAL, Colo. – The Colorado National Guard is helping the State Emergency Operations Center and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) convert the Colorado Convention Center in Denver into a...

Kentucky Guard builds COVID-19 alternate care facility
April 16, 2020 — LOUISVILLE, Ky. – More than 230 Kentucky National Guard Airmen and Soldiers spent four days turning a cavernous exhibit hall into an alternate care facility for patients recovering from COVID-19. The...

Innovation drives COVID-19 fight at Detroit care center
April 15, 2020 — DETROIT – “I’ve never seen 1,000 oxygen lines coming down from the roof of a convention center, and I’ve never seen walls made of portable plexiglass so they can be increased and decreased in size...

Illinois Air Guard C-130s join the fight against COVID-19
April 13, 2020 — EUGENE, Ore. – What could have been a three-day trek across 2,150 miles of interstate highway was shortened to overnight delivery by Air National Guard C-130H Hercules aircraft joining Illinois’ fight...

Illinois Guard helps build care facility at McCormick Place
April 10, 2020 — CHICAGO – A team of 60 members of the Illinois Air National Guard is helping build an alternate care facility at the sprawling McCormick Place to handle a potential surge of patients during the...

Three Components, One Army: LaNeve Stresses Guard’s Role in Army’s New Priorities

Pennsylvania Guardsmen Demonstrate Drone Innovation Project

Nordhaus, Raines Outline a National Guard Focused on the Future

Alaska Air National Guard Rescues Four From Plane Crash

Modular Airborne System Delivers One Million Gallons of Fire Retardant