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  • National Guard units across the nation complete Cyber Shield

    CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah - The National Guard completed its annual cyber defense training exercise July 23, with more than 750 top cyber defense professionals from Soldiers and Airmen to industry partners participating from all over the United States.Cyber Shield 21 was a concentrated, two-week effort to

  • New York National Guard closing down mass vaccination site

    NEW YORK – New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen began winding down their mission at the country's largest COVID-19 mass vaccination site July 9, as the last shot was administered at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.From Jan. 13 to July 9, the 620 members of the New York National

  • 106th Medical Group hones med tech trauma management skills

    WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – Simulated casualties were all around them. Twenty people lay dead or dying in the mass casualty exercise.Walking wounded "victims" were also arriving, all in need of immediate care. Radios crackled with messages about patients, their locations and transport, and area

  • NYNG helps hit half-million shot count at NYC vaccine site

    NEW YORK – More than a half-million COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered at New York state's mass vaccination site at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, staffed by 600 New York National Guard members.Manhattan resident Cassie Huang, 28, got the 500,000th shot from nurse Raquel Calderon and

  • NY, NJ Homeland Response Force resumes training

    EAST AMHERST, N.Y. — After a year and a half hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 200 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from New York and New Jersey trained together to respond to Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear incidents April 16-17.The members of the FEMA Region II

  • NYNG helps vaccinate 10,000 people in a day at New York site

    NEW YORK – The New York National Guard helped vaccinate 10,367 people in a single day at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City April 11.The team topped that achievement with 10,463 vaccinations the next day.And as vaccine supply increased, so did the number of people coming to be

  • NYNG ships over 10 million COVID test kits statewide

    TROY, N.Y. – Since last April, the New York National Guard has assembled and shipped more than 10.4 million COVID-19 test kits to public testing sites, nursing homes, schools, universities and hospitals.The operation started in a room at the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center

  • NYNG collects 3 million-plus health forms from travelers

    NEW YORK – Between Oct. 16 and April 1, New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen collected health information from travelers more than 3 million times.The mission began when Gov. Andrew Mr. Cuomo announced quarantine policies for travelers entering New York. It ended when the quarantine policy

  • 14th CST all-hazards response team is ready and relevant

    WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. - The Connecticut National Guard's 14th Civil Support Team showcased its skills in a Training Proficiency Evaluation conducted by a U.S. Army North team March 22-26. The USARNORTH scenario, designed to challenge the Soldiers and Airmen of the 14th CST, included injects for hot

  • 107th Attack Wing honors President Fillmore on birthday

    BUFFALO, N.Y. – The commander of the 107th Mission Support Group of the New York National Guard’s 107th Attack Wing honored the nation’s 13th president, Millard Fillmore, on his 221st birthday with a wreath-laying ceremony at his grave.Col. Steven Hefferon, representing President Donald Trump,