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  • 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

  • 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,

  • 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