Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2020

Army, Air officers bring different backgrounds to task force
May 20, 2020 — HORSHAM AIR GUARD STATION, Pa. – Col. Jon Farr is an Army armor officer who has multiple combat deployments under his belt and serves as the commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 56th Stryker...

Cal Guard slows the spread of COVID-19 with telework
May 20, 2020 — SACRAMENTO, Calif. – U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Carroll starts his day in typical fashion familiar to all service members with full-time jobs in the active National Guard and Reserve. He wakes...

Maryland military police support COVID-19 test site
May 20, 2020 — WESTMINSTER, Md. – About 10 Soldiers from the Maryland Army National Guard’s 115th Military Police Battalion began supporting the first state-sponsored, community-based COVID-19 testing site May 14 at...

Music provides support for Massachusetts National Guard
May 20, 2020 — HOLYOKE, Mass. – Music and the U.S. military have a long and storied relationship. Fife and drum music of the Revolutionary War was used to boost morale during the fight for independence. In the...

Oregon Airmen use technology to complete training, mission
May 20, 2020 — PORTLAND AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ore. – Nearly two months into the stay-at-home order issued by Gov. Kate Brown, people throughout the region are well into their “new normal” with childcare, remote...

New Mexico Air Guard assisting with coronavirus testing
May 19, 2020 — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The 150th Medical Group, part of the New Mexico National Guard Joint Task Force, is assisting the state’s COVID-19 response by conducting coronavirus testing site at the Wellesley...

WADS Airman sews 150 masks for Alabama hospital workers
May 19, 2020 — JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – A Washington Air National Guard member from the Western Air Defense Sector (WADS) sewed 150 protective cloth masks and sent them to a hospital in Alabama. Staff Sgt...

Joint innovation a hallmark of Michigan Guard's response
May 19, 2020 — LANSING, Mich. – Nearly sixty days after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer activated the Michigan National Guard for COVID-19 humanitarian support, U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Bryan Teff, assistant adjutant general...

Wyoming National Guard helps increase state COVID-19 testing
May 19, 2020 — CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The Wyoming National Guard’s 84th Civil Support Team (CST) is working with the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory (WPHL) to deploy the CST’s mobile laboratory to increase COVID-19...

NY Guard distributes 11 million meals, helps test 250,000
May 19, 2020 — LATHAM, N.Y. – Seventy-two days into the COVID-19 pandemic response, New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen have distributed more than 11 million meals, assembled almost 1 million COVID-19 test...

Alaska Army National Guard rescues injured man near Noorvik
May 19, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard helped rescue an injured man in Coffin Camp. At about 5 a.m. May 16, the Guard’s 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment’s Army...

RING sends humanitarian aid to the Bahamas and Timor-Leste
May 19, 2020 — EAST GREENWICH, R.I. – The Rhode Island National Guard partnered with the University of Rhode Island to send critical medical equipment to the South-Pacific island nation of Timor-Leste and the...

Vermont National Guard helps hospital with emergency care
May 18, 2020 — BURLINGTON, Vt. – Twenty-nine members of the National Guard served on a task force with the Emergency Department (ED) at the University of Vermont Medical Center.Members of the Vermont National Guard...

NC National Guard cyber mission continues despite COVID-19
May 18, 2020 — RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) and NC Division of Emergency Management hosted remote “virtual” cybertraining for state, local and tribal government officials May 13 and...

National Guard expanding COVID-19 testing across Wisconsin
May 18, 2020 — MADISON, Wis. – Twenty-five specimen collection teams from the Wisconsin National Guard continue to help increase the state’s COVID-19 testing capacity. Four teams collected specimens Sunday and 19...

Whatever the disaster, Washington Guard answers the call
May 18, 2020 — CAMP MURRAY, Wash. – Washington’s landscape forever changed on the morning of May 18, 1980, when Mount St. Helens unleashed the largest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. Washington National Guard...

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...

Michigan YCA completes class despite COVID-19 obstacles
May 18, 2020 — BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – The Michigan Youth Challenge Academy (MYCA) offers at-risk youth the chance to change their future for the better. The 22-week program faced its own obstacles during the recent...

Iowa National Guard opens COVID-19 test site in Storm Lake
May 18, 2020 — STORM LAKE, Iowa – Members of the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing and the Army National Guard’s D Company, 334th Brigade Support Battalion, have opened a COVID-19 testing site in...

Alaska National Guard rescues injured hiker on Esther Island
May 18, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued an injured hiker on Esther Island about 70 miles east of Anchorage May 16. A little after midnight, three...

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