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- [Bentley] National
Guardsmen have been mobilized

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to help combat the spread of COVID-19.

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Airmen from the 117th Air Refueling Wing

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are part of Joint Task Force 31,

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which is responsible for decontaminating

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long-term care facilities.

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Today the task force went to
Cherry Hill Healthcare Center,

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in Birmingham, Alabama.

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They used a mixture of disinfectants,

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both wiping it on and
releasing it as an aerosol mist

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to make sure all home residents

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and staff were safe from the virus.

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- Decontaminating this place,

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we are getting high-risk individuals

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and we're protecting them from the virus.

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It's important that we show integrity,

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that we're washing every surface

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and we don't rush this mission.

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So, we're taking our time to be thorough.

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So, the precautions that we're gonna take

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to ensure our own safety, we
have single use Tyvek suits,

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they get thrown away and decontaminated

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after each mission that we go on.

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We're using two pairs of gloves,
we're also gonna be using

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an M50 mask, that's a
gas mask with filters.

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And after we expel the building

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we go through decontamination process.

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- [Bentley] The gas masks
also prevent members

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from inhaling the decontaminates.

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Reporting from Cherry
Hill Healthcare Center,

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Birmingham, Alabama, I'm
Technical Sargent Jim Bentley.

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