“They have the confidence of every governor to the point where, if something needs to be done, governor’s offices around the country go, ‘Can the Guard do it?’”ĭuring his 25 years at the association, he can’t recall the Guard helping out at schools.
“The Guard has become something of a Swiss army knife,” Goheen said. In recent years, the National Guard has become a go-to source of emergency assistance for states staring down crises or disasters, which have come in many forms, said John Goheen, director of communications for the National Guard Association of the United States, which counts all 54 state and territory National Guard corps among its members. Balancing domestic disasters and foreign duties has been increasingly tricky for Guards in recent years, the Military Times reported. During the pandemic, Guard members have helped out by administering care in hospitals, leading vaccination efforts, providing security protection at the presidential inauguration, and supporting elections. The Guard’s main domestic duties include law enforcement and disaster relief. Most members serve part-time on weekends and a few weeks during the year while working regular jobs. The National Guard is made up of 440,000 civilian members in 54 separate organizations-one for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. “I think it’s been a game changer in lots of ways,” Scott said. In addition to the welcome manpower for school transportation and COVID-19 testing administration, the deployment of the state’s National Guard generated widespread headlines that drew the general public’s attention to the scope of the staff shortage, said Tom Scott, the executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.
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