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  • NY National Guard troops continue to aid nursing homes

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Eighteen New York National Guard medics and medical technicians on duty at a Syracuse area nursing home are opening up more care slots in the region’s medical system, according to Dr. Kimberly Townsend, the president and chief executive officer of Loretto Health and

  • Mass. Guard members use civilian medical training in COVID-19

    NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — More than 180 Soldiers and Airmen from the Massachusetts National Guard with civilian medical backgrounds have been called up to serve with Task Force Raptor and join the commonwealth's fight against COVID-19.Unique to TF Raptor, the Guard members on this mission have civilian

  • 173rd Medical Group rises to the challenge during COVID-19

    As the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, commanded more and more of the world’s attention in early 2020, those in the medical field quickly prepared to fight the virus. The 173rd Fighter Wing Medical Group has been in the thick of this fight since the outset, said Chief Master Sgt. Tina McKenzie, the