The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the various state National Guard units are doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic. It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.
Evil employers are using CoViD-19 as an excuse to layoff employees en-masse, resulting in a sudden increase in people qualifying for free food from food banks.
Video, Arizona National Guard deployed its military logistical vehicles to be used as ‘food trucks’ in support of the Midwest Food Bank in Gilbert, 22MAR2020:
In California, the Sacramento Food Bank explains why they requested National Guard personnel to help them:
Video, Connecticut National Guard deliver masks to ambulance and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) operations:
Florida National Guard operates the mass-testing site at Hard Rock Stadium.
Video report, Florida National Guard preps for mass-testing in Orange County:
Louisiana National Guard preps Bridge City volunteer firefighters on how to help run a mass-testing site.
Maryland National Guard load medical supplies and equipment at the Maryland Strategic National Stockpile location.
Video report, New Jersey National Guard preps for mass-testing at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel:
People lined up for testing by Pennsylvania National Guard, at Temple University’s Ambler Campus.
Rhode Island National Guard work the CoViD-19 hotline.
OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD RAMPS UP
OPERATION COVID-19: ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY, MARINES
Somewhere in the Philippine Sea a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman loads an ABI StepOne Plus RT-PCR machine with samples of potential CoViD-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), 19MAR2020.
U.S. Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Germersheim Central Distribution Center begin loading pallets of semi-perishable goods on to delivery trucks, 17MAR2020.
Germersheim Central Distribution Center delivers supplies to 33 commissaries, 26 U.S. Embassies and four Navy Exchange marts across Europe and Southwest Asia.
18MAR2020, Wiesbaden High School administrators hand out lap-top computers to students as they switch to online classes only.
U.S. Army CoViD-19 instructions posted at a photo shop in Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, 16MAR2020.
Half-a-million U.S. bound CoViD-19 testing kits were loaded onto a Tennessee National Guard C-17 at the U.S. Air Force’s Aviano Air Base. Shipments of test kits made by Copan Diagnostics, in Italy, began on 14MAR2020, through the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity teachers and administrators on the U.S. Air Force’s Osan Air Base get a CoViD-19 update, 20MAR2020. Students are now taking classes online.
Peterson Air Force Base conducting CoViD-19 screenings, 20MAR2020.
The U.S. Navy’s Branch Health Clinic Makalapa conducting CoViD-19 screenings.
Nellis Air Force Base, home to the massive Red Flag aerial wargames, conducting CoViD-19 screenings at Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center.
One of many CoViD-19 signs at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
U.S. Marines and Navy personnel prep Camp Lejeune for CoViD-19 screenings, 19MAR2020.
Crew member onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) conducts CoViD-19 disinfecting ops while the ship awaits maintenance at Bremerton.
Arkansas National Guard work the CoViD-19 test lines at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 20MAR2020.
California National Guard activated for Operation CoViD-19. Personnel check-out vehicle mounted radios at the Roseville Armory, 18MAR2020.
Florida National Guard personnel prep to administer CoViD-19 tests at the Community Based Testing Site, C.B. Smith Park, 20MAR2020.
Hawaii National Guard conduct CoViD-19 response planning, 18MAR2020.
Louisiana National Guard CoViD-19 testing at Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, 20MAR2020.
Members of the Maryland National Guard report for duty after being activated, 16MAR2020. More than 2-thousand were called-up or given early-warning notices for call-up! Any veteran can tell you what they are carrying. Maryland National Guard also assisted with transporting passengers from one of the infected Princess Cruise ships on 17MAR2020.
Maryland National Guard personnel set-up emergency triage tents outside Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center in Silver Spring, 19MAR2020.
Activated New Jersey National Guard personnel are screened for infections after reporting for duty, 19MAR2020.
New Jersey National Guard assists with operations at the CoViD-19 Community-Based Testing Site at Bergen Community College in Paramus, 20MAR2020.
New Jersey National Guard transported protective clothing from Hall’s Warehouse Corporation to the CoViD-19 Community-Based Testing Site at Bergen Community College.
New York National Guard operate Staten Island CoViD-19 testing site, note the ‘Hot Zone’ sign in red.
Stony Brook, New York, CoViD-19 testing site, 18MAR2020.
New York National Guard clean toys at a daycare facility in Scarsdale, 16MAR2020.
New York National Guard take calls at the CoViD-19 Hotline call center in Hawthorne, 16MAR2020.
Oregon National Guard sets-up tents outside of the Oregon Veterans’ Home (OVH) in Lebanon, 17MAR2020. The tents will be used to test the more than 2-hundred employees working at the OVH.
Oregon National Guard create the Oregon Medical Station (OMS) at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, 19MAR2020. It will be used to house 250 people from nursing homes.
Puerto Rico National Guard conducting CoViD-19 testing at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.
Half a million CoViD-19 testing supplies were shipped from Italian suppliers on Tennessee National Guard C-17 Globemaster-3 transports to the Tennessee Air National Guard base in Memphis.
The supplies were then loaded on FedEx trucks, 19MAR2020.
West Virginia National Guard takes calls at the CoViD-19 hotline.
Somewhere at sea, a Hospital Corpsman with the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet tests for diseases using a BioFire Film Array. The hi-tech machine can test for just short of 30 diseases at the same time. The pic was taken aboard the USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), 14MAR2020.
Medical supplies being loaded onto USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in San Diego, California, 20MAR2020.
Infected people could be delivered to USNS Mercy via MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters.
Mercy is one of two hospital ships owned and operated by Military Sealift Command, and operates in the Pacific Ocean.
Apparently they’re expecting to drink a lot of Red Bull?
The other hospital ship is the USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), which normally operates along the Atlantic coast, including providing taxpayer funded medical services to people in Central & South America, and the Caribbean.
A Ejército Mexicano medic, assigned to the USNS Comfort, helps a boy with a severely swollen head in Haiti, November 2019.
Throngs of Haitians line-up for help from the USNS Comfort, November 2019. Will the same thing happen at U.S. ports?
Coming for you? A view from inside a MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to USNS Comfort.
At Camp Pendleton, California, U.S. Marine Corps held a Installations West meeting to discuss scenarios for CoViD-19 response.
Marines onboard Camp Pendleton also built a quarantine site for anybody who test positive for the virus.
In the New Rochelle area of New York state, the Army National Guard began preparations for Operation CoViD-19.
