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Florida Guard chaplain supports Soldiers, first responders
April 10, 2020
Maj. Jaime Villacorta, chaplain of the 50th Regional Support Group, Florida National Guard, prays with Miami-Dade police at a COVID-19 test site at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla., April 5, 2020. Villacorta has provided spiritual support to Soldiers and first responders in South Florida.

Illinois Guard helps build care facility at McCormick Place
April 10, 2020
Members of the Illinois Air National Guard assemble an alternate care facility at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago April 8, 2020. Sixty Guard members were activated to support the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to set up the facility for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms who do not require intensive care.

La. Guard increases response force, mission support
April 10, 2020
Members of the Louisiana National Guard, 205th Engineer Battalion, help distribute food for the Great Baton Rouge Food Bank in Walker, Louisiana, April 9, 2020. Guard members have helped package and distribute over 580,540 pounds of food while assisting five food banks throughout the state.

KFOR RC-E commander delivers PPE to North and South Mitrovica
April 10, 2020
US-led Kosovo Force Regional-Command East Commander Col. Eric Riley, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oregon Army National Guard, delivered personal protective equipment April 7, 2020, to North and South Mitrovica to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

New Hampshire National Guard Airmen answer the call
April 9, 2020
Airmen from the 157th Air Refueling Wing, New Hampshire Air National Guard, work a makeshift call center in the basement of the state fire academy in Concord, April 7, 2020. Guardsmen help field thousands of unemployment benefit applications made through the center per day.

Guard members use innovative ways to train, keep distance
April 9, 2020
A member of the Maryland National Guard Joint Task Force Cyber April 3, 2020, at the 175th Wing at Warfield Air National Guard Base, Middle River, Md. The MDNG JTF-Cyber team is protecting and evaluating Maryland government websites to ensure they are functioning properly and the information presented is accurate.

167th Airlift Wing sustaining operations during pandemic
April 9, 2020
Chief Master Sgt. Tracie Darby, 167th Medical Group superintendent, demonstrates how to make cloth face masks from T-shirts to 167th personnel, April 7, 2020.

New Mexico Guard stays resilient through COVID-19 pandemic
April 9, 2020
Master Sgt. Marci Montoya of the New Mexico National Guard practices archery with family at home to help stay resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Delaware National Guard helps set up alternate care site
April 9, 2020
Delaware National Guard Citizen-Airmen and medical staff from Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Christiana Care, and St. Francis Healthcare check vital signs during a training exercise at an alternate care site at A.I. DuPont Hospital, Wilmington, Del., April 7, 2020. Adults who do not have COVID-19 will be treated at the facility if hospitals reach capacity.

Time at home means time to help make masks
April 8, 2020
When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued the order to stay at home March 22, 2020, to slow the spread of COVID-19, Kelly Hale of Haskins decided to sew cloth masks  for health care workers, first responders, the Ohio National Guard and other frontline workers.

 

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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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