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  • Iowa Guard Airmen support COVID-19 Test Iowa initiative

    Iowa Air National Guard members from the 185th Air Refueling Wing helped set up a COVID-19 test site in Sioux City, Iowa this week.The Iowa Airmen are assisting local and state agencies at the drive through test site that is set up in the parking lot of the Western Iowa Technical Community College

  • Kansas Guard helps limit COVID-19 spread at nursing homes

    Kansas Air National Guard medical teams take pride in helping their communities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical technicians from the 190th Air Refueling Wing have visited more than a dozen nursing facilities in the Topeka and Rossville area, completing over 350 fittings of N95

  • Indiana National Guard helps medical workers at state prisons

    INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana National Guard Soldiers and Airmen provided medical support to Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) facilities across the state in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.“These medical professionals quickly augmented the governor’s effort to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in

  • 115th Fighter Wing team assists with mortuary operations

    MADISON, Wis. – Members of the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing Fatality Search and Recovery Team (FSRT) mobilized last month to assist the state’s medical examiners with mortuary operations in the COVID-19 response.The team’s primary task is to assist the medical examiner and

  • New Mexico National Guard delivers water by the truckload

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Airmen and Soldiers of the New Mexico National Guard Joint Task Force are supplying food and water to New Mexico communities during the COVID-19 response mission.Around the state of New Mexico, many small towns and villages have been around for hundreds of years. While the sense

  • Ohio National Guard provides medical aid at federal prison

    ELKTON, Ohio – From blizzards to hurricanes, from East Coast to West Coast and anything in between, members of the National Guard answer the call each time our nation is in need.Today, as COVID-19 continues to grip America, more than 46,600 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are deployed to every

  • The faces behind masked service

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Members of the 150th Special Operations Wing fill in anywhere needed during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that all New Mexicans have what they need.With many jobs to do in response to the health crisis, Airmen from the Wing work with Soldiers to staff the New Mexico

  • Washington Air Guard member helps NYC medical examiner

    CAMP MURRAY, Wash. – Lt. Col. Bruce Simpson, the Headquarters Washington Air National Guard’s director of force support, started his fight against COVID-19 by supporting the Grand Princess cruise ship quarantine on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, in March.By early April he was on a

  • Wisconsin Guard conducts mobile testing around state

    MADISON, Wis. – Eleven specimen collection teams from the Wisconsin National Guard are supporting state and local health departments to increase COVID-19 testing across Wisconsin.The teams, comprised of more than 300 Soldiers and Airmen, established mobile testing sites at correctional facilities

  • PMEL continues calibration for total-force during COVID-19

    Through the course of many weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the various missions of the Air Force continue. One such area that often goes unnoticed is that of the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory or ‘PMEL’.As one of only seven labs that has the necessary equipment and personnel to perform