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  • Guard assists state health officials in COVID-19 mapping

    ARLINGTON, Va. – National Guard members are helping state and local health agencies conduct voluntary COVID-19 mapping to track and reduce the spread of the virus.“We are not focused on tracking the individual,” said Air Force Lt. Col. Christopher Panush, officer in charge of the Washington National

  • Adopting the family business, answering the call to service

    OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. – Newly commissioned 2nd Lt. Allen Nancarrow’s career in the profession of arms is rooted deeply in the service of his family. Following in the footsteps of his mother, father, and others, Nancarrow continues to carry the family legacy of service into the 21st

  • Mission Support Group key to wing's COVID-19 response

    MIDDLE RIVER, Md. – Airmen from the Maryland Air National Guard are playing an integral role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, performing many successful missions. But none of that would be possible without the behind-the-scenes support of personnel back on base.Airmen from the 175th

  • Oklahoma Guard supports hot spot through COVID-19 outbreak

    GUYMON, Okla. – The Oklahoma Air and Army National Guard is helping the Oklahoma State Department of Health and other state and federal agencies control the spread of COVID-19 in some of the state’s most affected areas, including the “hot spot” of Guymon.As of May 19, Guymon had 650 confirmed cases

  • Mobilians with Alabama Guard combat COVID-19 in hometown

    MOBILE, Ala. – Task Force 31, a joint effort between the Alabama Air and Army National Guard, has been fighting COVID-19 in the state since April.With numbers continuing to rise in the city, the Mobile natives who have been called to active duty are taking the fight personally.“I joined [the

  • New Jersey Guard pitches in at home for veterans

    VINELAND, N.J. – When the call for volunteers came, 31 Citizen-Airmen with the New Jersey Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing stepped up to help at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home. Armed with cleaning supplies and a desire to help others, the Airmen have integrated themselves with the

  • Wisconsin Guard conducting mobile testing around state

    MADISON, Wis. – More than 600 Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen with the Wisconsin National Guard have tested 58,093 people for COVID-19 in a continuing statewide mission.The Guard’s 25 specimen collection teams are supporting local health departments and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to

  • Galloway Airman gives back

    When the request for assistance in New Jersey’s state-run nursing homes came in the wake of COVID-19, Citizen-Airmen with the 177th Fighter Wing and 108th Wing answered the call. Airman 1st Class Abby Guercioni, a 2017 graduate of Absegami High School and a Galloway, N.J. resident, jumped at the

  • Iowa National Guard opens COVID-19 test site in Storm Lake

    STORM LAKE, Iowa – Members of the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing and the Army National Guard’s D Company, 334th Brigade Support Battalion, have opened a COVID-19 testing site in Storm Lake. Iowa Air National Guard Lt. Col. DeAnna Pennings, the officer in charge of the test site,

  • NGB chief promotes first Guard director of space operations

    AURORA, Colo. – U.S. Air Force Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau (NGB), promoted the first NGB director of space operations, U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Gregory T. White, to major general at Buckley Air Force Base May 20.Upon the establishment of the U.S. Space Force in