Story by Mark Olsen | New Jersey National Guard | 04.17.2020
It started with a question. It was during a staff call-in meeting with Brig. Gen. Jemal J. Beale, The Adjutant General of New Jersey, at the beginning of New Jersey’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in early March. New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen were being brought on to state active duty. It was also when all of New Jersey’s schools were closed....