3 States To Send National Guard Troops To DC
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Gov. Jeff Landry said he was sending 135 members of the Louisiana National Guard to Washington D.C. as part of President Donald Trump's federal crackdown on crime in the city.
Along with the 800 D.C. National Guard members already mobilized in the city, the deployments announced would bring the number of Guard members to about 1,700.
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KARK Little Rock on MSNArkansas National Guard soldiers attend sniper school
Arkansas National Guard soldiers attended sniper school training in Little Rock, where they learned how to construct camouflaged ghillie suits and practice long-range marksmanship, as well as concealment techniques.
It’s a noticeably different situation than the chaotic one that prompted the biggest military callup in Washington since the Civil War – the 1968 riots following the assassination of civil rights leader the Rev.
Dressed in camouflage fatigues, National Guard troops patrolled areas of Washington Thursday, dispatched by President Donald Trump to police what he has called "out of control crime" in the city.