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Air Guard Religious Support Team aids Javits Center mission
May 8, 2020
Air Force Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Jake Marvel, with the New York Air National Guard, gives Holy Communion to a U.S. Army Soldier at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Easter Sunday. Marvel was mobilized to the alternate care facility in April as part of a Religious Support Team in response to COVID-19.
Wisconsin National Guard helping at alternate care facility
April 27, 2020
Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers unload equipment at an alternate care facility in Milwaukee April 20, 2020. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the facility at Wisconsin State Fair Park and state and local officials are coordinating resources to staff and support the facility.
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.
1-221 Cavalry steps up to support Las Vegas hospitals
April 23, 2020
Soldiers of the Nevada Army National Guard receive medical supplies at a warehouse east of Sparks, Nevada, as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response in the Silver State. More than 1,000 Nevada National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are helping fight COVID-19 across the state.
Virgin Islands Guard helping convert compound for patient use
April 23, 2020
The Virgin Islands National Guard is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the government of the Virgin Islands to convert the 210th Regional Training Institute, shown April 21, 2020, to an alternate care facility that can serve as many as 46 COVID-19 patients.
Guard member supports COVID-19 response at her university
April 22, 2020
Connecticut Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Arielle Robles, 103rd Maintenance Group administration specialist, helps set up recovery center beds at Kaiser Hall at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut, April 21, 2020. Robles is an exercise science student at the university and is helping convert her usual classroom building into surge capacity space for local hospitals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Florida Guard partners with university on COVID-19 mission
April 20, 2020
Florida National Guard doctors, nurses and medics joined Florida International University at the Miami Beach Convention Center to conduct refresher training to prepare for patients in the event the space is needed for the COVID-19 response.
Pennsylvania National Guard helps set up alternate care site
April 17, 2020
A Soldier from the Pennsylvania National Guard attaches the handrail of a cot during set up of an alternate care site at East Stroudsburg University's Koehler Fieldhouse, East Stroudsburg, Pa., April 14, 2020.
Colorado National Guard helps set up medical shelter
April 17, 2020
Gov. Jared Polis, center, and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general and 54th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, visit The Ranch Events Complex, Loveland, Colo., April 14, 2020. The Ranch was identified by the state for use as a medical shelter during the COVID-19 response. The Colorado National Guard is helping convert the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, as another medical shelter.
Kentucky Guard builds COVID-19 alternate care facility
April 16, 2020
Capt. Jason Selby of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Civil Engineer Squadron sets up hospital beds and clinical space at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky., April 13, 2020. The alternate care facility can treat up to 288 patients recovering from COVID-19.
Innovation drives COVID-19 fight at Detroit care center
April 15, 2020
U.S. Army Spc. Anton Horton, from the 1434th Engineer Company, Michigan National Guard, sets up a patient room with supplies at the TCF Regional Care Center, Detroit, April 9, 2020. The center was converted into a 970-bed alternative care facility for COVID-19 patients by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Michigan National Guard.
Illinois Air Guard C-130s join the fight against COVID-19
April 13, 2020
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Evan Spotloe, foreground, a loadmaster, and Staff Sgt. Seth Johnson, a flight engineer, both with the 169th Airlift Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, help load medical isolation pods into a C-130H Hercules in Eugene, Ore., April 8, 2020. Two 182nd Airlift Wing C-130 aircrews airlifted 250 isolation pods in a cross-country overnight homeland defense mission delivery to Chicago for use in an alternate medical facility.
Illinois Guard helps build care facility at McCormick Place
April 10, 2020
Members of the Illinois Air National Guard assemble an alternate care facility at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago April 8, 2020. Sixty Guard members were activated to support the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to set up the facility for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms who do not require intensive care.