Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Stephanie Butler | New York National Guard | 09.12.2024
The New York Naval Militia, the New York Army National Guard, the New York Guard and the Schodack Landing Fire Company teamed up to execute a wildfire training exercise on the Hudson River off Schodack Island State Park on Sept. 6, 2024. Seventeen New York Naval Militia members deployed two patrol boats and a landing craft from the Military Emergency Boats Service, or MEBS for short. The......
Story by Master Sgt. Brandy Fowler | 107th Attack Wing | 10.23.2020
Passenger getting off planes coming from outside New York are now being greeted by New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assisting the Department of Health in enforcing New York’s COVID-19 travel restrictions....
Courtesy Story | New York National Guard | 07.13.2020
CAMP SMITH TRAINING SITE, CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y. -- When Operation COVID-19 began March 9, 2020, dozens of volunteers from the New York Guard state defense force responded as part of the New York National Guard COVID-19 response. More than 90 New York Guard members were among the 3,600 New York Military Forces members mobilized in the state’s pandemic response. New York Guard members were......
Story by Tech. Sgt. Ryan Campbell | New York National Guard | 03.31.2020
LATHAM, N.Y., (March 31, 2020) — Nearly 100 New York National Guard Airmen and Soldiers from have been staffing three call centers as part of New York State’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Guardsmen are taking phone calls placed to New York’s Novel Coronavirus Hotline, answering questions and concerns about COVID-19 at call centers in Brooklyn, Rotterdam and Schenectady.......
Story by Tech. Sgt. Ryan Campbell | New York National Guard | 11.25.2019
LATHAM, N.Y. (Nov. 25, 2019) — 100 emergency responders from across New York attended a workshop on dealing with mass fatality incidents hosted by the New York National Guard state headquarters here on Friday, Nov. 22. The training was coordinated by the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. Attendees came from the New York State Police, the Department of......
Story by Michael Strasser | Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs | 08.24.2018
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Aug. 24, 2018) -- Maj. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, 10th Mountain Division (LI) and Fort Drum commanding general said that in his four decades as a Soldier he never had the honor of accepting a bridge … until now. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was conducted Aug. 24 to celebrate the opening of the newly completed Nash Boulevard bridge....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District | 05.18.2017
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District, technical field teams have visited 13 Lake Ontario coast sites in response to emergency flood efforts. (Article by San Luciano Vera)...
Story by Staff Sgt. Gregory Williams | 353d Civil Affairs Command | 03.13.2016
UTICA, NEW YORK – On a mild afternoon, sunlight enveloped a schoolyard where four UH-60 Blackhawks sat in the grass. While more than 250 local took pictures inside of the Blackhawks, two groups of Soldiers met to discuss last minute key leader engagement questions. As children ran around the adjacent Blackhawks, the civil affairs teams conducted cold load training as a short time later the......
