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Iowa National Guard helps set up COVID-19 test site
May 28, 2020 — SIOUX CENTER, Iowa – Members of the Iowa Air and Army National Guard, working with the Iowa Department of Public Health, helped set up a COVID-19 test site in Northwest Iowa.The site in the hamlet of...

NY National Guard testing for virus in western New York
May 18, 2020 — BUFFALO, N.Y. – With the help of the New York National Guard, more than 10,000 residents of Western New York have been tested for the COVID-19 virus and its antibodies since April 29.The Guard members...

Delaware National Guard supports coronavirus testing
May 11, 2020 — GEORGETOWN, Del. – Members of the Delaware National Guard are fighting the spread of coronavirus, joining hundreds of frontline workers at community-based testing sites throughout Sussex County, the...

Iowa Guard Soldier helps community with virtual instruction
May 4, 2020 — DES MOINES, Iowa – On a sunny afternoon downtown, Spc. Taylor Lenhart is doing exactly what she joined the Iowa National Guard to do: helping her local community in times of crisis as a...

NY Guard delivers 4.5 million meals, half-million test kits
May 4, 2020 — LATHAM, N.Y. – Sixty-two days after the first New Yorker was diagnosed with COVID-19, and 55 days after being called to duty to help contain the pandemic, the New York National Guard has 3,629 members...

Colorado National Guard testing residents for COVID-19
April 28, 2020 — CENTENNIAL, Colo. – The Colorado National Guard is testing as many as 300 residents a day at a walk-up and drive-thru testing site at Island Grove Park in Greeley.By order of Colorado Gov. Jared...

Pennsylvania National Guard opens COVID-19 testing site
April 23, 2020 — WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Pennsylvania National Guard members and officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency opened a drive-thru COVID-19 testing...

Connecticut National Guard powers COVID-19 testing site
April 17, 2020 — NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A once-empty parking lot has been transformed into a place where 700 people a day can drive up and be tested for COVID-19, thanks to help from the Connecticut National...

Washington Guard brings COVID-19 testing to rural areas
April 17, 2020 — ABERDEEN, Wash. – As COVID-19 testing capability grows, Washington National Guard members are answering the call for help in the rural area of Grays Harbor County.Wearing full face masks, suits,...

Kentucky Guard supports first state drive-thru testing site
April 14, 2020 — FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Army National Guard began supporting local agencies at Kentucky’s first COVID-19 drive-thru test site at the Franklin County Fairgrounds April 13.Sixteen Soldiers from...

New York Guardsmen Earn Danish Military March Ribbon

Kentucky Guard Builds Portable Air Base for Patriot 26

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