Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2020

Hawaii Guard airlifts premature twins from Korea for care
April 9, 2020 — JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – An aircrew from the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 204th Airlift Squadron evacuated prematurely born twins from Korea to Maryland for medical care.Parker and...

Delaware National Guard helps set up alternate care site
April 9, 2020 — WILMINGTON, Del. – Airmen and Soldiers from the Delaware National Guard helped set up a new 38-bed field hospital – the first alternative acute care site in Delaware – to prepare for the COVID-19...

Time at home means time to help make masks
April 8, 2020 — HASKINS, Ohio – Stay-at-home order? No problem.When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, issued the order to stay at home March 22 in a statewide effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, one Ohio resident set out to...

NJ Guard Task Force sets up medical station in Meadowlands
April 8, 2020 — SECAUCUS, N.J. – Twenty-five New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen answered the call for volunteers to help set up a field medical station at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, one of three in...

104th Medical Group administers COVID-19 tests in community
April 8, 2020 — WESTFIELD, Mass. – In the Air National Guard, Airmen wear federal and state hats. When called upon by their state, they can serve the very communities where they live. Medical professionals from the...

Indiana National Guard provides critical food bank support
April 8, 2020 — MERRILLVILLE, Ind. – Indiana National Guard troops from the 381st Military Police Company in Plymouth are helping distribute food to the needy during the COVID-19 pandemic.“The assistance of the...

Colorado National Guard helps shelter homeless in Denver area
April 8, 2020 — CENTENNIAL, Colo. – More than 250 members of the Colorado National Guard (CONG) are helping the State Emergency Operations Center and the city and county of Denver shelter homeless people during the...

Wisconsin National Guard provides poll workers statewide
April 8, 2020 — MADISON, Wis. — More than 2,400 Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard mobilized to state active duty to serve as poll workers across Wisconsin during the April 7 election. The...

SC National Guard helps search for alternate care sites
April 8, 2020 — COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina National Guard (SCNG) is helping the state increase available hospital beds to accommodate a potential surge in COVID-19 patients.U.S. Army Maj. Gen. R. Van...

Pennsylvania National Guard supporting COVID-19 response
April 7, 2020 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – About 850 Pennsylvania National Guard members are helping respond to COVID-19 by supporting a virus testing site, distributing food and setting up a medical station.The...

North Carolina Guard answers call in COVID-19 pandemic
April 7, 2020 — RALEIGH, N.C. – More than 240 North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) Soldiers and Airmen deployed across the state to deliver food and medical supplies and perform other missions in response to the...

Utah Guard linguists overcome language gap during pandemic
April 7, 2020 — DRAPER, Utah – As Utah confronted the COVID-19 pandemic and a succession of earthquakes, linguists in the Utah National Guard helped communicate clear and concise messages to everyone affected in a...

Ohio Guard helps state evaluate alternate care sites
April 7, 2020 — UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio – Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine turned to the Ohio National Guard to help develop a plan to expand medical capacity as Ohio’s health care systems brace for the looming COVID-19 peak. The...

Idaho National Guard helps staff food banks
April 7, 2020 — BOISE, Idaho – More than 40 Idaho National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are helping food bank workers keep up with increased demand as Idahoans start to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.“We are...

New York National Guard JOC tracks fight against COVID-19
April 7, 2020 — LATHAM, N.Y. – The nerve center for the 3,000 members of the New York National Guard operating across New York would look familiar to any veteran of Afghanistan or Iraq. The Joint Operations Center,...

Alaska Army Guard’s 1-297th Infantry returns from Kosovo
April 7, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — More than 150 members of the Alaska Army National Guard assigned to the 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, stepped off the aircraft at Ted Stevens...

Maryland Guard sets stakes at Pimlico COVID-19 testing site
April 7, 2020 — BALTIMORE – The Maryland National Guard continues to support local response to COVID-19 by establishing a coronavirus testing site – the first of its size in Baltimore – at Pimlico Race Course...

NYC emergency room doctor joins Guard as flight surgeon
April 6, 2020 — WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – A New York City emergency room doctor at the heart of the fight against COVID-19 added another role to his already impressive list of medical credentials March 18: flight...

New Jersey Air National Guard supports COVID-19 test site
April 6, 2020 — HOLMDEL, N.J. – Forty Airmen from the New Jersey Air National Guard’s 108th Wing and 177th Fighter Wing answered the call for volunteers to be part of the state’s COVID-19 response force.The Airmen...

Michigan National Guard colonel protects those who serve
April 6, 2020 — LANSING, Mich. – “To me, this is what we do. We’re here to help our fellow Michiganders when the governor calls us, and this is that time.”For Col. Lavetta Bennett, chief of staff for the Michigan...

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