Pennsylvania Air National Guardsmen deployed to Guatemala for about three months to build a new medical clinic as part of exercise Beyond the Horizon. About 100 members of the RED HORSE units from Horsham Air Guard Station and Fort Indiantown Gap built the new clinic in La Blanca, Guatemala, to help locals get treatment for insect-borne diseases, such as Zika, and other illnesses such as hepatitis and HIV, according to an Air National Guard release. “The villagers were very welcoming to us being there. [They were] happy we were providing them with a clinic,” SrA Christopher Montague, 111th RED HORSE Squadron Det. 1 heavy equipment operator said in the release.
The Defense Department hasn’t seen an increase in domestic violence reports among military families since the new coronavirus crisis began, despite the COVID-19 pandemic reportedly causing a spike in such activity across the globe, the head of the Pentagon’s Office of Military Family Readiness Policy told reporters Oct. 29. However,…