Just in time for the 2020-2021 hurricane season, a lucky U.S. Air Force Reserve SAR (Search And Rescue) unit in Florida got a brand new HC-130J Super Hercules-Combat King-2.
The first HC-130J for USAF Reserves in Florida, takes off from its birthplace in Marietta, Georgia, 02APR2020.
FL-892 will call Patrick Air Force Base its home, cared for by the 39th Rescue Squadron-920th Rescue Wing. They are the first, and so far only, Reserve SAR unit to get a new HC-130J. (they do fly the older models of HC-130 SAR Hercules)
The HC-130J is one of nine versions of the C-130J series, specifically built for SAR and aerial refueling missions.
Video, HC-130Js operated by 23rd Wing out of Nellis AFB, Nevada, arrived at Moody AFB, Georgia, for up-load of equipment and supplies for SAR ops relating to the Hurricane Harvey disaster in 2017 (interesting how the new C-130Js with their new engines and six bladed props still sound like the old C-130s, well almost):
Video, a 23rd Wing HC-130J returns to its home on Nellis AFB, Nevada, after conducting SAR ops over Texas following the 2017 Hurricane Harvey disaster:
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Twin newborns evacuated from Osan Air Base for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 30MAR2020. The parents are U.S. Army military police based at Camp Walker in the CoViD hot zone of Daegu.
U.S. Army parents of the newborn twins say good bye as their new children are about to be shipped back state-side for care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
The military police mom saying goodbye to her newborns before the medics take them to a waiting C-17 Globemaster-3 for flight back to the states.
Security personnel stand outside U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, screening of people for CoViD before they can enter the hospital.
U.S. Marines conduct CBRNE drill on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, 02APR2020.
SeaBees delivering meals to personnel in a ‘restriction of movement status’ on Naval Station Rota.
New way to get your prescriptions at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. Medical Group pharmacy technician places a prescription order in a drop off box.
Meals delivered to possibly infected Marines quarantined on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.
At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 3D printing being used to make face shields.
Fort Lee, Virginia, enforces Social Distancing for about 8-hundred new Basic Training recruits.
National Guard take over the operations of the Foodbank Santa Barbara, 27MAR2020.
Rapid deployable tent which, once the framing is put into place, is lifted by giant air bags. Outside Middlesex Hospital, 01APR2020.
31MAR2020, National Guard remove gym equipment from Moore Field House at Southern Connecticut State University, as it will now be used as a Federal Medical Station.
Many of the National Guard personnel being activated are already healthcare workers on the silly-vilian side. Arielle Tango is not only an emergency room technician at her regular job, she’s also a National Guard combat medic Sergeant who specializes in medical data collection. Does activating her for National Guard response to a pandemic actually create a problem for the hospital she was working for as a civilian?
Establishing a Federal Medical Station at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, 31MAR2020.
176th Engineer Brigade personnel inspect a possible Alternative Care Facility location.
National Guard distributing face shields, 31MAR2020.
Pharr Point of Entry, Texas, 23MAR2020.
Near Sasabe, Arizona, 22MAR2020.
Video, 24MAR2020, USNS Comfort load-up at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, next stop New York City:
Video, USNS Mercy steams out of San Diego, 23MAR2020, on its way to the Port of Los Angeles:
National Guard engineers in Riverside deploying to assist with the construction of federal ‘medical facilities’ (camps?) on the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, 25MAR2020.
National Guard deliver state Department of Public Health’s portable beds with linens to mobile hospitals, 25MAR2020.
Long lines waiting to get into the Hard Rock Stadium for CoViD-19 testing, 24MAR2020.
National Guard and the state Department of Health screening passengers from out-of-state at the Orlando Airport, 25MAR2020.
Florida National Guard works with state Department of Health inspectors at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport, 25MAR2020.
At Jacksonville Airport, Florida National Guard assist the state Department of Health in screening passengers from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, 25MAR2020.
National Guard personnel undergo daily medical checks.
This is the state Emergency Operations Center in Boise. As of 25MAR2020, the emergency alert level is at Level 2, the governor of Idaho ordered all non-essential business to shutdown, and residents to ‘shelter-in-place’.
National Guard assist with food distribution at the Greenmount Recreation Center in Baltimore, 24MAR2020.
National Guard provides transportation service to silly-vilians, 17MAR2020.
Setting up 250 cots at the Stan Spirou Field House at Southern New Hampshire University, 23MAR2020.
CoViD-19 testing site at Kean University, 25MAR2020.
Long lines waiting for testing at Bergen Community College, 24MAR2020.
National Guard using their Lakota helicopters to fly CoViD-19 ‘observation’ missions.
Off-loading medical supplies CoViD-19 Mobile Testing Center at the South Beach Behavioral Center, Staten Island, 19MAR2020.
Warehouse ops in in the Raleigh-Durham area, 23MAR2020.
National Guard making home deliveries of food in the Toledo area, 25MAR2020.
24MAR2020, the state Military Department preps for CoViD-19 ops.
Assembling a triage tent for the University of Vermont Medical Center Emergency Room, 24MAR2020.
Providing security for local and federal government offices, 24MAR2020.
National Guard hand out boxes of food, along with the Greater Greenbrier Long Term Recovery Committee, in Lewisburg, 25MAR2020.
U.S. Air Force (USAF) CoViD-19 screenings at Ramstein Medical Clinic, Ramstein Air Base, 19MAR2020.
U.S. Army medics prep for another day of CoViD-19, Hohenfels, 18MAR2020.
Employees of the Miesau Army Depot Child Development Center disenfect the now shuttered daycare center, 20MAR2020.
Employees of the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz S6 (computer geeks) report being swamped with requests for laptops after U.S. Army personnel were ordered to ‘telework’.
Despite Italy being hit hard by CoViD-19, infrastructure work must still be done. USAF civil engineers replace a fire hydrant at Aviano Air Base, 23MAR2020.
Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Security Department conducts CoVid-19 checks at the gate, 25MAR2020. 
Vending machines on Misawa Air Base get disinfected, 24MAR2020.
U.S. Army Soldier on Camp Carroll has the fit of his respirator tested during CoViD-19 response training, 24MAR2020.
Going into battle?
This is how the U.S. Army mops floors in CoViD infected Korea.
Using CBRNE vehicle decontamination procedures to deal with CoViD-19.
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System is actively screening for CoViD-19 (just to be clear, the VA is separate from the Department of Defense).
Drive-thru meds delivery at Luke Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.
CoViD-19 testing is not painless, Luke AFB, 23MAR2020.
CoViD-19 screening aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District employee inspects a facility in Santa Clara, 23MAR2020, as potential use for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp). The order to search for potential CoViD ‘camps’ came from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).
After a Marine on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar tested positive for CoVid-19, the post office was disinfected and marked-off for proper social distancing, 23MAR2020.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) technical survey team confer with a U.S. Public Health Service officer about the potential of using the Hawaii Convention Center as a FEMA ordered Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).
Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay Branch Health Clinic implements CoViD-19 protections.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District have been actively assessing potential sites for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).
CoVid-19 screenings outside the Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.
Marines returning from overseas now undergoing CoViD-19 screening at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.
Volunteers on Grand Forks Air Force Base with free food for grade school students now unable to go to school due to CoViD-19 shutdowns.
Tobyhanna Army Depot employee performs maintenance on a much needed ventilator.
Maintenance on an infusion pump.
Airmen working the Ross Clinic’s pharmacy, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). So far no cases of CoViD infection on the base.
Goodfellow AFB has also switched to curb-side pharmacy ops only.
New recruits arriving at Lackland AFB for basic training have a new lesson to learn; social distancing.
