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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue support to state’s COVID-19 response

West Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assigned to Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE) East, sanitize the Children’s Home Society in Romney, Va., May 1, 2020. Task Force CRE has conducted sanitization and decontamination, COVID-19 swabbing, and personal protective equipment training across the state as part of the COVID-19 response efforts.(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue support to state’s COVID-19 response

Airman 1st Class Summer Wilson sews cloth face masks at the 167th Airlift Wing, April 30, 2020. Wilson is part of the West Virginia National Guards Task Force Innovation which is producing protective face coverings as part of the COVID-19 response efforts. Wilson taught herself how to sew by watching online videos so she could sew masks for the task force. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue supporting state’s COVID-19 response

West Virginia Army National Guard 1st Sgt. Steven Light addresses members of Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE) East at the start of a sanitization mission at the Children’s Home Society in Romney, W.Va., May 1. Task Force CRE has conducted sanitization and decontamination, COVID-19 swabbing, and personal protective equipment training across the state as part of the COVID-19 response efforts. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue supporting state’s COVID-19 response

West Virginia National Guard Airmen and Soldiers put the finishing pieces, including filters and head straps, on N-95 face masks cast from molded silicone at the 167th Airlift Wing, April 30, 2020. The Guardsmen are part of Task Force Innovation and have produced well over 1,500 masks. The masks were designed by Shepherd University staff after a shortage of off-the-shelf masks due to COVID-19. The mask’s designers provided the molds and training to the Guardsmen to enable to mask production. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue supporting state’s COVID-19 response

Completed face masks, cast from silicone molds are stacked at the end of the production line at the 167th Airlift Wing, April 30, 2020. West Virginia National Guardsmen assigned to Task Force Innovation have created more 1,500 masks. The masks were designed by Shepherd University staff after a shortage of off-the-shelf masks due to COVID-19. The mask’s designers provided the molds and training to the Guardsmen to enable to mask production at the wing. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue supporting state’s COVID-19 response

Staff Sgt. Anthony Vanorsdale, places a filter piece into an N95 face mask at the 167th Airlift Wing, April 30, 2020. West Virginia National Guardsmen assigned to Task Force Innovation have produced more than 1500 of the cast mold masks developed by staff at Shepherd University. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue supporting state’s COVID-19 response

Airmen assigned to Task Force Sustainment East load boxes of personal protective equipment into a cargo van at the 167th Airlift Wing, April 24, 2020. The task force is responsible for the transport of PPE to emergency management offices throughout the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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167th Airlift Wing Airmen continue supporting state’s COVID-19 response

Senior Master Sgt. Jim DeCicco, the non-commissioned officer in charge of the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force Sustainment East, coordinates a shipment of personal protective equipment from the 167th Airlift Wing, April 24, 2020. The task force is responsible for the transport of PPE to emergency management offices throughout the eastern panhandle West Virginia. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Senior Master Sgt. Emily Beightol-Deyerle)
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W.Va. Guard Assists with Establishment of Regional Food Distribu

Employees and volunteers with the Mountaineer Food Bank help distribute supplies to volunteers with a local food bank from a newly created food distribution center at the West Virginia National Guard's Rock Branch facility in Poca, West Virignia, May 05, 2020. The new center is a joint effort between the West Virginia National Guard (WVNG), West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD), Mountaineer Food Bank, Facing Hunger Food Bank, and the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (WVDHSEM) as the need for supplemental and emergency food services continues to grow across the Mountain State during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston)
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W.Va. Guard Assists with Establishment of Regional Food Distribu

An employees with the Mountaineer Food Bank loads frozen good into a refriderated trailer at a newly created food distribution center at the West Virginia National Guard's Rock Branch facility in Poca, West Virignia, May 05, 2020. The new center is a joint effort between the West Virginia National Guard (WVNG), West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD), Mountaineer Food Bank, Facing Hunger Food Bank, and the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (WVDHSEM) as the need for supplemental and emergency food services continues to grow across the Mountain State during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston)
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W.Va. Guard provides PPE training to children's home staff

West Virginia National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Roy Copeland demonstrates to youth care workers at the Davis Child Shelter on recommended sanitary and personal safety procedures during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Charleston, West Virginia, May 04, 2020. Members of the West Virginia National Guard are providing training opportunities for private sector partners including grocery, retail, and other businesses throughout West Virginia in an effort to protect workers and customers and help slow the spread of the pandemic and mitigate public health threats. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Eugene Crist)
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Hoyer: ‘West Virginians can be national leaders in reopening process’

Sgt. 1st Class Brian Tomasek with the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE) (TF-CRE), collects post sanitization swabs from a conference room after it was sanitized with a Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide (AHP) system as part of a demonstration of its disinfection capabilities at the West Virginia Capitol Complex Charleston, West Virginia, April 29, 2020. The three man team form TF-CRE is teaching employees from the State of West Virginia Department of Administration General Services Division how to use the AHP system to clean rooms and combat the possible spread of the infectious COVID-19 pandemic virus.
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Hoyer: ‘West Virginians can be national leaders in reopening process’

Sgt. 1st Class Brian Tomasek with the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE) (TF-CRE), discusses the control application of a Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide (AHP) system as part of a demonstration of its disinfection capabilities at the West Virginia Capitol Complex Charleston, West Virginia, April 29, 2020. The three man team form TF-CRE is teaching employees from the State of West Virginia Department of Administration General Services Division how to use the AHP system to clean rooms and combat the possible spread of the infectious COVID-19 pandemic virus. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Eugene Crist )
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Hoyer: ‘West Virginians can be national leaders in reopening process’

Members of the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE) (TF-CRE), discuss the usage of a Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide (AHP) systems as part of a demonstration of its disinfection capabilities at the West Virginia Capitol Complex Charleston, West Virginia, April 29, 2020. The three man team form TF-CRE is teaching employees from the State of West Virginia Department of Administration General Services Division how to use the AHP system to clean rooms and combat the possible spread of the infectious COVID-19 pandemic virus. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Eugene Crist )
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Hoyer: ‘West Virginians can be national leaders in reopening process’

Sgt. 1st Class Brian Tomasek with the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE) (TF-CRE), holds positive hydrogen peroxide indicators and live biological indicators as part of a Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide (AHP) system demonstration of its disinfection capabilities at the West Virginia Capitol Complex Charleston, West Virginia, April 29, 2020. The three man team form TF-CRE is teaching employees from the State of West Virginia Department of Administration General Services Division how to use the AHP system to clean rooms and combat the possible spread of the infectious COVID-19 pandemic virus. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Eugene Crist )
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W.Va. Guard Works to Build Analytical Forecasting Tools for COVID-19 Response

Senior Airman Will Wagstaff (left), Maj. Ryan Coss (center) and Senior Airman Carly Farmer pose for a photo outside the West Virginia National Guard Joint Forces Headquarters in Charleston, W.Va. Coss, Wagstaff and Farmer are serving as a part of Task Force Petersen, the task force dedicated to procuring and forecasting demand for critical personal protective equipment for the State of West Virginia's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Caleb Vance.)
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Sgt. 1st Class Brad Convery and Sgt. 1st Class Brian Tomasek, members of the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Enterprise (CRE) (TF-CRE), conduct surface swabbing procedures to measure contaminants during operations to sanitize spaces at a daycare facility in Scott Depot, West Virginia, April 25, 2020. TF-CRE utilized multiple Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide (AHP) systems to fog rooms within the facility, helping to clean the rooms and combat the possible spread of the infectious COVID-19 pandemic virus. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston)
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W.Va. Guard aviator brings unique skillset to COVID-19 pandemic battle

West Virginia National Guard aviator Warrant Officer Dana J. Dandeneau is serving with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (WVDHHR) Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (DIDE) during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, April 16, 2020, in Charleston, West Virginia. While normally an aviator in uniform, Dandeneau is an Applied Epidemiology Fellow at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) in his civilian career, and is utilizing his unique skill set to serve West Virginia during the pandemic. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Caleb Vance)
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West Virginia Army National Guard 1st Lt. Samantha Fabian, commander of the 1201st Forward Support Company, poses in front of a mobile testing lab April 21, 2020. Fabian, the program director who leads the mobile laboratories, has been an instrumental part of establishing the DoD's first mobile testing labs for the National Guard. (courtesy photo)
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W.Va. Guard making progress on nursing home testing, increasing sanitization missions

A member of the West Virginia National Guard Task Force CRE undergoes decontamination following COVID-19 testing at a veterans home facility April 20, 2020. The West Virginia National Guard conducted COVID-19 testing at two veterans home facilities in Barboursville and Clarksburg totaling 411 patients and staff following an executive order issued by Governor Jim Justice to test all nursing home facilities in the state. (West Virginia National Guard photo)
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