{"id":111254,"date":"2021-03-10T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=111254"},"modified":"2021-03-10T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:42:32","slug":"secdef-austin-extends-d-c-deployment-through-may-23rd-for-2300-national-guardsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=111254","title":{"rendered":"SecDef Austin extends D.C. deployment through May 23rd for 2,300 National Guardsmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Step one in a perpetual deployment is to always slide back that date you’re going home. Optimally, if you’re a general officer, do it just days before you’re set to get your troops into the planes home. This maximizes the level of “suck” your men and women will experience, thus making them hardier war fighters. In a few years when none of them re-enlist you blame it on society, racism, or the economy. It has nothing whatsoever to do with your last minute extensions of a pointless mission.<\/p>\n

So it was that the powers that be decided just two days before the end of the current deployment to extend the militarization of Washington D.C. for another two and a half months. They\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>cutting the number of troops from about 5,000 to 2,300, and they got those fancy ribbons<\/a> coming their way. As we talked about a few days ago<\/a>, it’s very likely given the current leadership in D.C. that we will have a permanent “security” force of armed military personnel in D.C.<\/p>\n

Jeff LPH 3 sends in this Military Times report<\/a>;<\/p>\n

An extension of the National Guard deployment at the U.S. Capitol has been approved through May 23.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved the request late Tuesday for nearly 2,300 Guard troops continue to provide security in Washington, D.C., at the request of the Capitol Police, amid worries about continued threats. Officials have been scrambling in recent days to determine if and how to fill the request for more than 2,000 Guard forces, as the original March 12 deadline for them to leave Washington looms.<\/p>\n

The 2,300 figure is nearly a 50 percent reduction of the current support force, according to a Pentagon press release. DoD officials will work with U.S. Capitol Police to incrementally reduce the Guard footprint as conditions allows, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in the release.<\/p>\n

The decision underscores concerns about the ongoing threat of violence at the Capitol, two months after rioters breached the building in violence that left five people dead. Law enforcement have remained in a heightened security posture in response to intelligence suggesting possible threats to the Capitol by militia groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is lazy, inaccurate reporting at best and intentionally misguiding at worst. The “violence” left one dead. The woman who got shot breaching some inner sanctum inside the capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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