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  • Army, Air officers bring different backgrounds to task force

    HORSHAM AIR GUARD STATION, Pa. – Col. John Farr is an Army infantry officer who has multiple combat deployments under his belt and serves as the commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team.Col. Scott Coradi is an Air Force medical officer who is an emergency

  • Cal Guard slows the spread of COVID-19 with telework

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Carroll starts his day in typical fashion familiar to all service members with full-time jobs in the active National Guard and Reserve.He wakes up, changes and starts his commute to work, perhaps grabbing a coffee along the way.As a personnel

  • Oregon Airmen use technology to complete training, mission

    PORTLAND AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ore. – Nearly two months into the stay-at-home order issued by Gov. Kate Brown, people throughout the region are well into their “new normal” with childcare, remote offices, drive-thru grocery shopping and visiting friends and family via video teleconference.For the

  • New Mexico Air Guard assisting with coronavirus testing

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The 150th Medical Group, part of the New Mexico National Guard Joint Task Force, is assisting the state’s COVID-19 response by conducting coronavirus testing site at the Wellesley Health Center.While agencies around the state continue to work to prevent the spread of the

  • WADS Airman sews 150 masks for Alabama hospital workers

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – A Washington Air National Guard member from the Western Air Defense Sector (WADS) sewed 150 protective cloth masks and sent them to a hospital in Alabama.Staff Sgt. Rachel Yandon, a radio frequency transmission systems apprentice working in the 225th Support

  • Joint innovation a hallmark of Michigan Guard's response

    LANSING, Mich. – Nearly sixty days after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer activated the Michigan National Guard for COVID-19 humanitarian support, U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Bryan Teff, assistant adjutant general – air and commander of the Michigan Air National Guard, is reflecting on the challenges and

  • NY Guard distributes 11 million meals, helps test 250,000

    LATHAM, N.Y. – Seventy-two days into the COVID-19 pandemic response, New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen have distributed more than 11 million meals, assembled almost 1 million COVID-19 test kits and helped administer a quarter of a million tests.As of May 18, the New York National Guard had

  • National Guard expanding COVID-19 testing across Wisconsin

    MADISON, Wis. – Twenty-five specimen collection teams from the Wisconsin National Guard continue to help increase the state’s COVID-19 testing capacity. Four teams collected specimens Sunday and 19 were collecting them May 18.The 600 Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen on the teams established mobile

  • Alaska National Guard rescues injured hiker on Esther Island

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued an injured hiker on Esther Island about 70 miles east of Anchorage May 16.A little after midnight, three pararescuemen from the 212th Rescue Squadron boarded an HH-60G Pave Hawk from the 210th Rescue