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3rd CBRN Task Force completes COVID-19 test site mission
April 7, 2020 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP – The Pennsylvania National Guard’s 3rd Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Task Force completed its hand-off of the Montgomery County, Pa., COVID-19 testing site, and returned to Fort Indiantown Gap on April 5, 2020. ... MORE

Pa. Task Force South delivers cots to FEMA Field Hospital
April 4, 2020 — Soldiers with 1st Squadron, 104th Calvary Regiment, Pa. National Guard, delivered 125 special needs cots from Norristown State Hospital to the FEMA Field Hospital located at Temple University in north Philadelphia on April 3. The facility will be used as a potential surge hospital for patent care in the event that the region hospitals are overwhelmed treating patience amid the COVID-19 outbreak. ... MORE

PA Task Force South delivers special needs cots to FEMA Field Hospital

Pa. National Guard members provide support to Pittsburgh food bank
April 3, 2020 — Seventeen Pennsylvania National Guard members were activated by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency on Thursday, April 2 to support a food bank in Pittsburgh... MORE

Seventeen Pennsylvania National Guard members were activated by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency on Thursday, April 2 to support a food bank in Pittsburgh.

Pa. National Guard Soldier brings home top award
April 3, 2020 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – A Pennsylvania National Guard Soldier recently brought home a top award from the Army SHARP Academy at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas... MORE

Master Sgt. John Paul Karpovich (center) receives the Army SHARP Academy’s Spirit Award from Col. Alexander Pickands (left), Fort Leavenworth Combined Arms Center staff judge advocate, on March 6. At right is Col. Christopher Engen, director of the Army SHARP Academy. Karpovich works full time as the noncommissioned officer in charge of the G1 operations section at the PNG’s Joint Force Headquarters at Fort Indiantown Gap. (U.S. Army National Guard courtesy photo)

Iowa, Pa., Del. National Guard in thick of COVID-19 battle
March 31, 2020 — ARLINGTON, Va. – Dozens of members of the Pennsylvania, Delaware and Iowa National Guard are helping respond to the COVID-19 threat, delivering medical supplies and helping locate and set up sites where patients can be treated should hospitals become overwhelmed.More than 120 Soldiers and Airmen in the Iowa National Guard are supporting coronavirus... MORE

Soldiers from the 103rd Engineer Battalion, Pennsylvania National Guard, help the Federal Emergency Management Agency unload equipment at the a school in Glen Mills, Pa., to establish a federal medical station for non-COVID 19 patients should regional hospitals become full.

Pa. National Guard Supports FEMA Medical Station
March 29, 2020 — Federal, state and local assets are coming together to open this facility which can house non-COVID 19 patients with less severe conditions if and when regional hospitals become full. ... MORE

Federal, state and local assets are coming together to open this facility which can house non-COVID 19 patients with less severe conditions if and when regional hospitals become full.

Pa. Guard Supporting Interagency State Partners during COVID-19 operations
March 26, 2020 — Several Pennsylvania National Guard members were assigned March 25 to support a warehouse mission with the Pennsylvania Department of Health... MORE

Department of Health warehousing facility

Hundreds of COVID-19 tests administered daily in Montgomery County with help of Pa. National Guard
March 24, 2020 — Since the Pennsylvania National Guard began helping Montgomery County administer COVID-19 test kits last week, as many as 275 people have been tested each day.At the direction of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, approximately 80 members of the Pa. National Guard continue to support Montgomery County EMA with the operation of their... MORE

Montgomery County with drive-through COVID-19 testing

Guard has long supported local officials in health emergencies
March 18, 2020 — ARLINGTON, Va. – While the National Guard is often called out by governors to respond to natural and man-made disasters, Guard members also have a long history of responding to public health emergencies. Since the Guard’s establishment in 1636, members have responded to outbreaks of smallpox, Spanish flu, yellow fever, cholera, hoof-and-mouth... MORE

Soldiers at Camp Funston, Kansas, are quarantined while recovering from the Spanish flu in 1918. The flu infected about 500 million people around the world.

Pa. National Guard Supports Pennsylvanians Repatriated from Travel on Grand Princess Cruise
March 17, 2020 — ANNVILLE, Pa. - Over 50 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen have been placed on state active duty to provide assistance to state partner agencies in their response to COVID-19 as passengers from a Grand Princess Cruise returned home today... MORE