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The National Guard will be responding to COVID-19 for the foreseeable future

from Military Times

The National Guard will be responding to COVID-19 for the foreseeable future Military Times There are still more than 30,000 National Guardsmen activated for coronavirus pandemic response, the head of the National Guard Bureau said recently, and there is no end in sight. Since March, troops have been mobilizing to work in hospitals, staff testing stations, distribute supplies and otherwise provide logistics back-up to local agencies, and that is likely to continue. "Thankfully, civil disturbance operations seem to be receding," Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel said during a Brookings Institution webinar. "But COVID-19 appears to be, maybe even on the rise, in some cases, and there's no sign of operational tempo reduction in the near future." READ MORE

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