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NJ Guard Task Force sets up medical station in Meadowlands
April 8, 2020
New Jersey Air National Guard Capt. Sara Kucharski, a physician assistant with the 108th Medical Group, briefs civilian volunteers arriving at the field medical station (FMS) at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, Secaucus, N.J., April 6, 2020. The New Jersey National Guard medical staff is helping state and local officials operate the FMS in a COVID-19 relief effort.

104th Medical Group administers COVID-19 tests in community
April 8, 2020
A group of aerospace medical technicians and a medical administrator from the 104th Medical Group, Massachusetts National Guard, spent a week moving throughout Massachusetts administering tests for COVID-19, sometimes at four locations per day.

Indiana National Guard provides critical food bank support
April 8, 2020
Indiana National Guard troops from the 381st Military Police Company, Plymouth, load groceries into cars of local families at a drive-thru food drive at the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana, Merrillville, Indiana, April 3, 2020.

Colorado National Guard helps shelter homeless in Denver area
April 8, 2020
Members of the Colorado National Guard transition to state active duty at Joint Force Headquarters, Centennial, Colorado, April 6, 2020. More than 250 Colorado National Guard members are helping the State Emergency Operations Center and the city and county of Denver shelter homeless people during the COVID-19 response.

Wisconsin National Guard provides poll workers statewide
April 8, 2020
2nd Lt. Ben Marinin, an intelligence officer with Company D, 173rd Brigade Engineer Battalion, processes absentee ballots in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, April 7, 2020. More than 2,400 Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen were mobilized to state active duty to assist as poll workers in state elections.

SC National Guard helps search for alternate care sites
April 8, 2020
The South Carolina National Guard works with state and federal agencies as a task force to conduct engineer assessments of sites throughout the state that could be used as alternate care facilities should there be a surge of COVID-19 patients at hospitals.

Pennsylvania National Guard supporting COVID-19 response
April 7, 2020
Spc. Gabriel Rushing of the Pennsylvania National Guard's 1/104th Cavalry gives a thumbs-up before driving a load of special needs cots from the Norristown State Hospital April 3, 2020, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency field hospital at Temple University in Philadelphia.

North Carolina Guard answers call in COVID-19 pandemic
April 7, 2020
North Carolina Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Ashley Feimster unloads medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile from a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle at an Alamance County Emergency Management facility, April 2, 2020. The North Carolina National Guard has been working with State Emergency Response partners on COVID-19 response.

Utah Guard linguists overcome language gap during pandemic
April 7, 2020
Spc. Logan Jensen, a Spanish and Chinese linguist with the 142nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 300th MI Brigade, Utah National Guard, collaborates over video teleconference with 2nd Lt. Joseph Kline, a Spanish linguist with the 141st Military Intelligence Battalion, to translate emergency preparedness information from English into Spanish during a statewide self-quarantine, near Salt Lake City, Utah, March 26, 2020.

Ohio Guard helps state evaluate alternate care sites
April 7, 2020
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lucas Budd, an engineer adviser assigned to the Northwest Joint Engineer Assessment Team, takes notes during a site survey April 4, 2020, at Upper Sandusky High School. Ohio National Guard members were assessing whether the school is suitable for use as an alternate medical facility, if COVID-19 cases increase beyond what existing hospitals in the state can manage.

 

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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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