Cadet Jamia Pettus, a member of the 729th Quartermaster Company, 1297th Support Battalion, helps register patients for COVID-19 tests at the mobile clinic at St. Mary’s County’s Health Department, Feb. 4, 2021.

US Air Force Master Sgt. Linda Musto is the first sergeant assigned to the 175th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Warfield Air National Guard Base at Martin State Airport in Middle River, Maryland. She joined the 171st Communications Flight, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, in 1994 before coming to the Maryland Air National Guard in 2010 as an aircraft armament systems mechanic.

Vilchez serves with the MDNG mobile vaccination support team. The MVST is designed to provide vaccine clinic support by administering vaccines as well as providing logistical support. Originally from the Dominican Republic, he has been a resident of Maryland since 2008 and a member of the Maryland National Guard since 2014.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David Smith is a healthcare specialist with the 104th Medical Company Area Support, Maryland Army National Guard. Smith has answered the call to support his state and community through the COVID-19 pandemic by leading as the noncommissioned officer in charge of a mobile vaccination support team.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Miguel Rosario is a member of the 175th Cyber Operations Group based at the Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Maryland. He is currently a Cyber Warfare Officer but originally enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1997 before commissioning in the U.S. Navy Reserve as a Cryptologic Warfare Officer.

Sgt Russel Donivan, a healthcare specialist, and others with the 224th Medical Company Area out of Gaithersburg, Maryland answered the call to assist the nursing home staff of Pleasant View, in Mt. Airy Maryland, following an outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. The state understood that many more nursing homes may be vulnerable to a similar outcome. The Maryland National Guard ...

Pfc. Matthew Thomas, a military police in the 290th Military Police Company based in Parkville, Maryland, assist in the operations on the ground at the Glen Burnie VEIP. He is a member of a squad of eight who have been alternating between food bank missions and assisting with traffic flow for COVID-19 testing sites. Thomas, a resident of Silver Spring, ...

Pvt. Anthony James, a 92F, petroleum supply specialist, with the Maryland National Guard’s 1229th Transportation Company, out of Baltimore, Maryland, is called for his first mission in his first year in the National Guard. When a new recruit raises their right hand and swears into the military, there are many feelings. This momentous occasion signifies the start of a new ...

Maj. Faith Courvelle is an assistant operations officer and works to continually monitor and update mission information for the operations center in Adelphi, Maryland. With a multitude of missions being run across the state, proper planning and coordination is essential in the state response to the COVID-19 virus. Courvelle came to her current position as a broadening assignment in operations. ...

Sgt. Kevin Leon, petroleum lab specialist with the 729th Quartermaster Composite Supply Company, has been working closely with school staff and nurses at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, in  Baltimore, Maryland, supporting the community. Leon, originally from California, is tasked to hand out not only meals, but school work supplements for the students who did not have computers.