Overview

• Senior Master Sgt. Marci Salmon and Spc. Daniel Daly led two-person teams in Ruidoso that performed nine swift-water rescues earlier this month, including saving eight residents from a flooded mobile home park.
• The New Mexico National Guard Task Force has continued operations beyond Ruidoso to support the Mescalero Apache Reservation, Las Vegas, Silver City and Vado.
• Engineering units from the 111th Sustainment Brigade, 93rd Brigade and the Air National Guard’s Red Horse Squadron have conducted debris removal, traffic control and sandbag and water transport for affected communities.
• Collaboration with tribal, state, local and federal authorities under Maj. Marvin Paulk’s command has united Army and Air Guard elements in multi-jurisdictional disaster relief.
• Guard teams remain on the ground executing ongoing recovery tasks, leveraging specialized rescue and engineering capabilities to stabilize areas hit by monsoon floods on burn-scarred slopes.