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  • Emergency Management Team Critical to Fighting COVID-19

    Emergency responses are anything but routine. However, with the prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation actions, the Emergency Management office is the guiding light for the Emergency Operations Center in crisis response procedures at the 104th Fighter Wing. “Our focus is on

  • Doctor helps keep Guard members safe to serve

    COLUMBUS, Ohio – All across the nation, National Guard Airmen and Soldiers are supporting their communities and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially exposing themselves while serving their duties.As the men and women of the Ohio National Guard work to protect their communities, Air Force

  • 178th Wing analysts serve Ohioans in response to COVID19

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a time of uncertainty, nearly 400 members of the Ohio National Guard have been called to state active duty to serve in their communities and aid people throughout Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic.Four analysts with the 178th Wing are assigned to the Joint Task Force 37 (JTF-37)

  • 146th Airlift Wing helps set up Los Angeles medical station

    LOS ANGELES – Airmen with the 146th Airlift Wing helped set up medical equipment and hospital beds for a federal medical station at the Los Angeles Convention Center to aid in COVID-19 response March 29.“This is a huge part of why I joined. I’ve been on deployments, but this is the first time I’ve

  • Connecticut National Guard helps distribute medical supplies

    NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – Connecticut National Guard Soldiers have helped turn a 175,000-square-foot warehouse into a primary distribution center for medical supplies in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Trucks arrive filled with personal protective equipment, medical supplies and equipment,

  • Innovation is key to Michigan Guard member's COVID-19 response

    LANSING, Mich. – "All I've ever known my whole life is health care," says Air Force Capt. Brynt Ellis. "My dad was sick the entire time I was growing up – he had three kidney transplants before he died at the age of 46."There's a lull on the floor of Michigan's State Emergency Operations Center

  • 146th Airlift Wing helps distribute food to those in need

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A team from the California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing (146 AW) is helping get food out to people in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.Projected as a 14-day mobilization, the 146 AW has provided some 80 Guard members to support and integrate with additional

  • Secretary Esper enhances National Guard’s rapid COVID-19 response

    ARLINGTON, Va. – As more than 13,880 National Guard members support the whole-of-America response to COVID-19 today, an authorization by the secretary of defense has boosted the Guard’s ability to tackle the pandemic.“We are using every tool available to get through this national crisis as fast as

  • Ohio National Guard member serving a greater purpose

    COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nearly 400 members of the Ohio National Guard, go to work each day packaging, transporting and distributing food and other essential items to the state's most vulnerable populations. A logistics readiness officer assigned to the 178th Wing monitors the situation to ensure the Guard

  • NY National Guard doubles force responding to COVID-19

    LATHAM, N.Y. – The New York National Guard has doubled the number of members helping to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the state to more than 2,200 troops on duty.From Niagara Falls to Long Island, Soldiers and Airmen are providing logistical and administrative support to state and local