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Latest "D.C. National Guard" stories
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The Pentagon has streamlined the process for sending National Guard troops into DC
The change should make it less complicated to request D.C. National Guard activation.
Creating a DC National Guard quick-reaction force is a bad idea
We need to keep our nation’s seat of government safe, but creating a quick-reaction force is not the right solution, says the author of this commentary.
By Retired Maj. Gen. Arnold L. Punaro
Probe faults DC National Guard use of helicopter during June protests
The long-overdue report was triggered by widespread objections after one D.C. Guard helicopter hovered low enough over protesters to create a deafening noise and spray protesters with rotor wash.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
This is why the National Guard didn’t respond to the attack on the Capitol
The response to the siege on the Capitol was mired in red tape.
Guard troops in DC say they want to ‘give people the opportunity to express their First Amendment rights’
“The mission is to separate the good protesters and then the rioters and looters. You kind of have to draw the line between which is which," said one private first-class.
By Howard Altman