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NG in 54 states gearing up
The National Guard Is Responding to COVID-19 Coronavirus National Emergency
By Eric Francis
Updated Mar 13, 2020 at 1:16pm
"National Guard units in 54 states and territories as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency are gearing up to assist with the declaration of a “National Emergency” by President Trump which is expected to occur Friday afternoon as the United States tries to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across the country.
“As of this morning, about 400 Air and Army National Guard professionals in six states – Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, New York, Rhode Island and Washington – are providing personnel in support of civil authority at the direction of their governors in response to COVID-19. As other states are requested to support civil authorities, those numbers will change rapidly. By the end of the day we expect that number to approach 1,000,” spokeswoman April Cunningham of the National Guard Bureaus said over the noon hour on Friday, adding that so far “Thirty-three states have declared emergencies in response to the spread of COVID-19.”
Each state’s National Guard units act independently under the control of their state’s governor and earlier this week the governors of New York, Rhode Island, Florida and Puerto Rico called up approximately 50 Air and Army National Guard professionals to address COVID-19 responses and placed them on “State Active Duty” which is an on-duty status this is paid for by the individual states."
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