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Indiana Guard helps long-term care facilities fight COVID-19
October 30, 2020
Indiana National Guard Brig. Gen. Dale Lyles, the adjutant general, speaks to Citizen-Soldiers Oct. 30, 2020, on the importance of their mission supporting long-term care facilities throughout the state for the rest of the year. More than 1,300 members of the Guard will assist with COVID-19 testing and other measures at the facilities.
Indiana National Guard contributes to COVID-19 research
October 8, 2020
An Indiana National Guard medic preps a COVID testing station in Indianapolis Oct. 5, 2020. Medical teams deployed to 15 testing locations throughout Indiana to support Indiana State Department of Health and Fairbanks School of Public Health in an ongoing study to better understand COVID-19.
Indiana National Guard activates cyber battalion
October 6, 2020
1st Sgt. John Stickler uncases one of Indiana National Guard’s new 127th Cyber Protection Battalion guidons at the Indiana War Memorial Oct. 3, 2020. The battalion of nearly 100 Citizen-Soldiers protects military networks and service members from internet-based and online attacks.
28th ECAB hurdles challenges, completes training
September 17, 2020
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brad Whitt, crew chief with Bravo Company, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, sits on a ramp and looks at the sunset out the back of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as it flies over the 28th ECAB's mobilization station at Fort Hood, Texas.
Despite pandemic, mission changes, 829th soldiers on overseas
August 19, 2020
Sgt. Douglas King of the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 829th Engineer Company assesses a road repair project in Afghanistan with a Romanian soldier in April 2020. Approximately 150 Soldiers from the 829th Engineer Company are deployed across the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
Indiana National Guard Soldier secures cyber success
August 7, 2020
Indiana National Guard Soldiers graduate from the Ivy Tech Community College Cyber Academy Aug. 2, 2019. Front Row: Sgt. Stephen Carlile, 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team; Spc. James Gill, 2/150 Field Artillery; Spc. Sophia Balderas, 76th Brigade Engineer Battalion; Spc. Caleb Murphy, 151 Heavy Infantry, D Co. Back Row: Spc. Nathaniel Musick, 219th Engineering Brigade; Cpl. Luis Diaz-Sanchez, 1/152 Cav.
151st Infantry Regiment adapts training to COVID-19 pandemic
August 5, 2020
During an integrated live-fire, Indiana National Guard Soldiers with the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s 151st Infantry Regiment completed mortar table five, a practice qualification exercise, at Camp Atterbury, Edinburgh, Indiana, July 21, 2020.
181st Intelligence Wing Airman manages ground transportation
August 3, 2020
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bob Osborn, a ground transportation specialist assigned to the 181st Intelligence Wing, Indiana Air National Guard, gestures toward an engine hoist while performing vehicle transmission maintenance at Hulman Field Air National Guard Base, Ind., July 31, 2020. Osborn assists with vehicle maintenance and repair in addition to his ground transportation duties.
122nd Fighter Wing returns to drill amid COVID-19
July 17, 2020
A U.S. Airman with the Indiana Air National Guard receives a temperature check while passing through a prescreening station June 14, 2020, at the 122nd Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Temperature checks were conducted as an additional safety measure to help identify members with potential COVID-19 symptoms.
Indiana Airmen, Soldiers join in patient transport exercise
July 10, 2020
Airmen and Soldiers from the Indiana National Guard prepare to load a patient into a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during a medical transport exercise at the Johnson County Armory in Franklin July 2, 2020. Due to propeller wash, service members did not wear masks for safety reasons as the masks could cause debris interfering with helicopter propellers.
Indiana Guard helps test long-term care staff across state
July 6, 2020
A medic from the Indiana National Guard tests for COVID-19 at the Greenwood Healthcare Center on June 24, 2020. The Indiana National Guard assisted OptumServe with statewide testing of more than 47,000 employees at 520 long-term care facilities as part of a new initiative by the Indiana State Department of Health, June 10 to 28.
Indiana National Guard conducts search-and-rescue training
June 30, 2020
An Indiana National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk pilot conducts preflight checks before a combat search-and-rescue training exercise in Miami County, Indiana, June 18, 2020. The mock scenario utilized a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the Gary Army Aviation Support Facility and multiple A-10C Thunderbolt II fighter jets from the 122nd Fighter Wing, Fort Wayne, to retrieve personnel from a downed aircraft inside hostile territory.
Indiana National Guard helps with COVID-19 study
June 19, 2020
Indiana National Guard members assist Indiana University researchers and the Indiana State Department of Health with the second wave of the IU Fairbanks COVID-19 study, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The data gathered from the study is integral to Gov. Eric Holcomb's "Back on Track" initiative.
Indiana Guard medics jump into action to help burn victim
June 12, 2020
Spc. Yoonho Lee, Cpl. Luisa Kolb and Cpl. Ethan Collins, combat medics with 215th Area Support Medical Company, 81st Troop Command from Franklin, Indiana, receives the Army Achievement Medal for administering aid to a chef at Second Helpings, a community kitchen in Indianapolis. All three medics felt their quick response was nothing extraordinary and credit one thing they all share — their military training.
DC Guard helps make way for protesters, First Amendment
June 9, 2020
District of Columbia National Guard 1st Lt. John McGlothlin, an Army attorney, patrols Gallery Place Chinatown June 6, 2020, in Washington, D.C. McGlothlin was activated to help keep peace so demonstrators could protest.
IN Guard's 127th Cyber Protection Battalion ready for duty
May 13, 2020
Maj. Rose Gilroy is the commander of the Indiana National Guard's new 127th Cyber Protection Battalion. The unit of almost 100 Guard members falls under the only cyberbrigade in the Army National Guard, the 91st Cyber Brigade based in Virginia.
Indiana National Guard helps medical workers at state prisons
May 8, 2020
Indiana National Guard medics with 2-151 Infantry headquarters company assist medical professionals at Pendleton Correctional Facility April 30, 2020. The medics conduct sick call operations, perform blood draws, and dispense medicine as prescribed by Indiana Department of Corrections doctors and nurses while maintaining social distancing standards.
Indiana Guard Soldiers trade parachutes for sewing machines
May 7, 2020
Indiana National Guard Soldiers with the 338th Quartermaster Company make face masks in Columbus, Indiana, May 1, 2020. This unique mission is part of the Indiana National Guard’s ongoing 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.
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.