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PA Guard supports COVID-19 testing site in Wilkes-Barre
April 21, 2020 — Soldiers and Airmen from the Pennsylvania National Guard conducted training with officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency on April 19, 2020, in preparation for a COVID-19 testing site at the Mohegan Sun Arena parking lot... MORE

A Pennsylvania National Guard Soldier straps a shield over her face before the start of COVID-19 testing practice at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on April 19, 2020. The practice consisted of walk-throughs of the operation of the lanes that would be run by teams from the Pa. National Guard, Pennsylvania Department of Health and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler).

Pa. National Guard supports Broomall Nursing Center
April 18, 2020 — At the direction of PEMA and DOH, 18 members of the Pa. National Guard reported to the Broomall Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Broomall Pa. to assist in current staffing shortages... MORE

Guardsmen arrive at Broomall Rehabilitation and Nursing Center to assist in current staffing shortages

Pennsylvania National Guard transportation units deliver meals to dozens of distribution centers across the state
April 17, 2020 — Pennsylvania National Guard transportation units are assisting the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services beginning April 7 to deliver meals to various distribution centers across the state... MORE

HARRISBURG, Pa. - On April 9, soldiers of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, 213 Regional Support Group, 228th Transportation Battalion, 131st Transportation Company assist with loading and transporting boxes of self-stable meals throughout the commonwealth. These meals, as many as 25,000 a day, will resupply county emergency management agencies, senior citizen centers, food banks and other charitable organizations.

PA Guard members certify in CPR
April 17, 2020 — Airmen and Soldiers from the Pennsylvania National Guard were put through multiple tests to become American Red Cross certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, at Fort Indiantown Gap on April 13, 2020... MORE

Soldiers and Airmen from the Pennsylvania National Guard perform the written evaluation of the American Red Cross CPR certification on April 13, 2020

PTF North, PEMA, DOH join together to setup hospital alternate location
April 16, 2020 — Soldiers from the Pennsylvania National Guard assisted officials from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Health in establishing an alternate care site at East Stroudsburg University's Koehler Fieldhouse on April, 14, 2020. ... MORE

Soldiers from the Pennsylvania National Guard help unload supplies from a Pennsylvania Department of Health trailer at East Stroudsburg University's Koehler Fieldhouse on April 14, 2020.

How it works: Pennsylvania National Guard support during COVID-19 pandemic
April 7, 2020 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa.—Approximately 850 Pennsylvania Guard members are supporting operations throughout the Commonwealth, providing support to a variety of operations including, supporting a community testing site in Montgomery County , supporting the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, and setting up a FEMA Medical Station in Glen Mills... MORE

Pennsylvania National Guard members from 1/104th Cavalry -- part of Pennsylvania Task Force South -- load a LMTV with special needs cots at the Norristown State Hospital facility on Friday, April 3. Soldiers from the 1/104th Cavalry delivered 125 special needs cots to the Federal Emergency Management Agency field hospital located at Temple University's Liacouras Center in north Philadelphia. The facility will be used as a potential surge hospital for patient care in the event that city hospitals are overwhelmed treating patients amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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)