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  • Michigan Guard helps test at long-term care homes, prisons

    SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Michigan National Guard is sweeping across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.), helping test people for COVID-19 at long-term care facilities and prisons.“The Michigan Army and Air National Guard have been asked by the state to support the Michigan State Police (MSP) and

  • PA Air, Army Guard join together for ventilator training

    FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Soldiers and Airmen from the Pennsylvania National Guard joined forces for ventilator training at the Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC) May 6.“We were working on our ventilator training today with Colonel (Ryan) Harris, instructing us on how to properly use the

  • KY Guard members balance civilian jobs, COVID-19 mission

    FRANKFORT, Ky. – More than 800 Soldiers and Airmen in the Kentucky National Guard are helping numerous agencies in response to the coronavirus pandemic.Many have left their civilian jobs to step up and fill the gap to aid their fellow citizens who have found themselves in need during the COVID-19

  • Wisconsin Guard conducting mobile testing around state

    MADISON, Wis. – Twenty-five specimen collection teams from the Wisconsin National Guard are helping local and state health officials increase the state's COVID-19 testing capacity.More than 600 Soldiers and Airmen established mobile testing sites at correctional facilities and health clinics,

  • Guard's COVID-19 response is largest since Hurricane Katrina

    ARLINGTON, Va. - Almost 47,000 Soldiers and Airmen from the National Guard are activated to help fight COVID-19 in the Guard’s largest domestic response effort since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. More than 51,000 Guard members responded to Katrina. While Katrina response efforts were in a concentrated

  • Kansas National Guard helps extend the life of N95 masks

    TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas National Guard is helping state and local health officials address the shortage of N95 medical masks by assisting in decontaminating masks so they can be used again.N95 Masks that would be disposed of after a single use can be decontaminated and reused for the COVID-19

  • NH Guard Airman answers the call on unemployment hotline

    CONCORD, N.H. – For more than five years, Staff Sgt. Natalie Howes has been an air traffic controller with the 260th Air Traffic Control Squadron, New Hampshire Air National Guard.Howes is also a senior at the University of New Hampshire, where she is studying chemistry. After graduation, she plans

  • Virginia Guard strike teams boost COVID-19 testing capacity

    RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are helping increase Virginia’s COVID-19 testing capacity at long-term care facilities with point prevalence sampling teams.Led by the Richmond-based 34th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosives Enhanced

  • Wisconsin National Guard to support special election

    MADISON, Wis. – Approximately 250 Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers and Airmen will assist local officials as poll workers for the May 12 special election for the 7th congressional district.The 7th is the largest of Wisconsin's eight congressional districts in terms of area, covering all of 21