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  • Colorado Air Guard members sew masks in lieu of parachutes

    BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Colorado Air National Guard’s 140th Wing Aircrew Flight Equipment (AFE) shop in Aurora volunteered to sew more than 500 masks to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in the community.These Airmen learn to sew to make parachutes and mend uniform items, explained the

  • New Mexico Air Guard delivers PPE across state

    GRANTS, N.M. – New Mexico Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Israel Martinez and Senior Airman Jason Quintana recently delivered personal protective equipment (PPE) to Cibola County.As part of the statewide response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Martinez and Quintana drove more than 60 miles from Albuquerque

  • Mass. National Guard provides security support on Nantucket

    A team of Air National Guard Security Forces and Army National Guard Military Police are on the island community of Nantucket assisting the local police department by providing security at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Wisconsin Guard team testing inmates, staff at county prison

    FRANKLIN, Wis. – Nearly 30 Wisconsin National Guard troops established a mobile COVID-19 testing site at the Milwaukee County House of Corrections to collect specimens from staff and inmates.Milwaukee County asked the Wisconsin National Guard to assist after multiple cases of the coronavirus were

  • 104th Fighter Wing member making mask extenders on own time and dime

    More than 50 members of the 104th Fighter Wing have been activated and are working within their career fields to assist with the COVID-19 response efforts within the Commonwealth. Although Staff Sgt. Whitney Greaney has not been activated, she decided to help her community with her personal 3D

  • 173rd Medical Group rises to the challenge during COVID-19

    As the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, commanded more and more of the world’s attention in early 2020, those in the medical field quickly prepared to fight the virus. The 173rd Fighter Wing Medical Group has been in the thick of this fight since the outset, said Chief Master Sgt. Tina McKenzie, the

  • Jacobsmeier says yes to state activation call for COVID-19

    Iowa Air National Guard Lt. Colonel Debbie Jacobsmeier is working as the Officer in Charge of Region 3, Regional Medical Coordination Center site in Sioux City, Iowa. Jacobsmeier is a traditional guard member, assigned to the 185th Air Refueling Wing clinic in Sioux City, Iowa. Jacobsmeier

  • Connecticut National Guard powers COVID-19 testing site

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A once-empty parking lot has been transformed into a place where 700 people a day can drive up and be tested for COVID-19, thanks to help from the Connecticut National Guard.Equipment from the 103rd Air Control Squadron equipment will help power the drive-thru test site, and