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Video by Tech. Sgt. Lealan Buehrer

Illinois National Guard helps slow spread of COVD-19 in Chicagoland's vulnerable homeless population (b-roll)

182nd Airlift Wing

April 23, 2020 | 2:24

Units Featured: 634th Brigade Support Battalion (Sullivan, Ill.); 182nd Airlift Wing (Peoria, Ill.)

Date: April 23, 2020

Location: COVID-19 alternate care facility in Schaumburg, Ill.

Description: Force support and logistics Airmen with the Illinois Air National Guard’s 182nd Airlift Wing under state active duty provide isolated shelter services to the Chicago suburb’s homeless population in a alternate care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Also on-site was an Illinois Army National Guard Unit Ministry Team, whose mission is to providing morale, spiritual and religious support to Soldiers and Airmen Illinois National Guard teams activated for the COVID-19 response.

00:00:00 - U.S. Air Force Airman Amari Burton, a personnel specialist with the 182nd Force Support Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, delivers food to residents in the alternate housing facility.

00:00:15 - U.S. Army Spc. Bryan Neice, left, a religious affairs specialist, and Chaplain (Capt.) Jeffery Nelson, second from left, a battalion chaplain, both with the 634th Brigade Support Battalion, Illinois Army National Guard, visit with 182nd Airlift Wing Airmen providing COVID-19 alternate care facility services.

00:01:42 - Airmen with the 182nd Airlift Wing, Illinois Air National Guard, prepare meals for distribution to residents in the COVID-19 alternate care facility.

00:01:57 - U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. David McMullin, the air transportation chief enlisted manager with the 182nd Logistics Readiness Squadron, reconditions his team’s work station during meal deliveries.

00:02:16 - Cutaway shots of work center signs.

(U.S. Air National Guard video by Tech. Sgt. Lealan Buehrer)