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Washington Guard brings COVID-19 testing to rural areas
April 17, 2020
Airmen deployed from the 141st Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane prepare to start a shift in the testing tent at a COVID-19 community-based testing site in Aberdeen, Wash., April 16, 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.

Indiana Guard supports warehouse operations serving inmates
April 17, 2020
An Indiana National Guard Soldier from the 38th Sustainment Brigade packs commissary orders for Indiana offenders at the Plainfield Correctional Facility, Plainfield, Indiana, April 14, 2020.

W.Va. Guard disinfecting first responder vehicles
April 16, 2020
Members of the West Virginia National Guard perform COVID-19 decontamination of first responder vehicles with an Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide system at Yeager Airport, Charleston, West Virginia, April 14, 2020. The method will be used to sanitize more than 250 police vehicles and ambulances in the area.

Guard linguists support COVID-19 response in Washington state
April 16, 2020
Staff Sgt. Aleksandr Kim, a cryptolinguist with Delta Company, 341st Military Intelligence Battalion, and Staff Sgt. Aleksandr Popov, a human intelligence collector with Alpha Company, 341st Military Intelligence Battalion, via video conference, talk with Russian instructors from the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Language And Culture Center at the Information Operations Readiness Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, March 7, 2020. The language training was part of the COVID-19 response in Washington state.

NY Army National Guard Soldiers move vital medical supplies
April 16, 2020
Staff Sgt. Stephanie Kimball assigned to the 1569th Transportation Company, 369th Sustainment Brigade, New York Army National Guard, documents an incoming supply shipment for the COVID-19 response at Stewart Air National Guard  Base in Newburgh, N.Y., April 14, 2020.

Florida National Guard Soldiers take combat lifesaver course
April 16, 2020
Staff Sgt. Johnnie Walker with the 256 Medical Company trains Florida Army National Guard Soldiers on basic lifesaving skills during a Combat Life Saver Course at the Orange County Convention Center community based testing site in April 2020.

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.

Maintenance team makes face masks for Texas Air Guard members
April 16, 2020
Staff Sgt. Paul Renker, 149th Maintenance Squadron hydraulics technician, wears a mask he made on his personal 3D printer for people in his unit in the Texas Air National Guard.

NY National Guard executes somber duties in NYC
April 15, 2020
1st Lt. Shawn Lavin of Amherst, N.Y., the commander of the  New York Air National Guard's 107th Attack Wing Fatality Search and Recovery Team, gives a morning briefing outside Bellevue Hospital in New York City, April 4, 2020. The New York National Guard members are supporting the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to locate and conduct dignified retrieval of remains.

 

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Ohio National Guard wraps up COVID-19 hospital support mission
Ohio National Guard Public Affairs
May 11, 2022 | 1:40
The staffing support provided by members of the Ohio National Guard and State Defense Force was the helping hand that many hospitals and communities needed during the spike of COVID-19 cases around the state from December into early this year. More than 2,000 Soldiers and Airmen were activated by Gov. Mike DeWine during that timeframe to help relieve hospitals and health care facilities, which welcomed the assistance due to employee shortages and illnesses.
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