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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)

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