Local NY National Guard members participating in humanitarian operation in southern Brazil

More than a dozen members of New York’s National Guard left the U.S. for a humanitarian operation.

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15 medical personnel based at the Queensbury armory will participate in a week-long exercise in southern Brazil, to help provide both routine and emergency medical care to soldiers.

The Brazilian army has assigned 1,700 troops to the exercise.