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Sheppard Airmen make cloth face covers to combat COVID-19
East Hartford, Connecticut-native Airman 1st Class Britanie McKayle, a 363rd Training Squadron aircraft munitions apprenctice course graduate, threads a sewing maching at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, April 7, 2020. McKayle and other Airmen from other career fields volunteered to learn a new skill at the 361st Training Squadron's aircrew flight equipment schoolhouse to help make cloth face covers in response to a Defense Department directive for all military and civilian members, their families and contractors to wear the precautionary barrier when social distancing isn't practical or maintainable. The group will make several thousand face covers for those on Sheppard AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo by John Ingle)