The Montpelier Bridge
Row of military vehicles in Berlin. Photo by Carla Occaso.
For the past year, the Vermont National Guard has been serving on the frontlines aiding locally in coronavirus relief efforts, federally to support Operation Capitol Response in Washington, D.C., and globally with deployments to various locations in the U.S. Central Command and in Africa and Europe. This makes for their most active year since the 2010 Afghanistan deployments, reported Maj. Scott Detweiller, Acting State Public Affairs Officer for the Vermont Guard.
The Bridge’s readership has a Guard base in Berlin.
Coronavirus relief efforts started in March 2020, when Task Force Coyote a unit serving Vermonters throughout the pandemic established three different sites around the state in case of emergency overflow, set up an alternate health care facility in Essex in only a week to divert less acute needs from overwhelmed hospitals, and assembled and shipped over 160,000 test k