Across Long Island, members of the New York Army National Guard and the New York Air National Guard wait for orders to leave their day jobs to airlift civilians trapped on roofs above hurricane floodwaters or rescue troops from active war zones.

None of those assigned to National Guard facilities across the state are currently deployed in the nation’s capital, according to Eric Durr, a spokesman for the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs, which oversees local National Guard outfits. That includes about 1,500 members across Long Island.

Two West Virginia National Guard members were shot in Washington Wednesday in what the mayor there said was a targeted attack. Durr declined to comment on the shooting.

Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma is home to the New Yor

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