A former representative of Ohio’s state Adam Miller calls on the governor of Ohio Mike Dewine to send members of the Ohio National Guard, who were recently arranged in Washington, back home. Photo taken on August 20, 2025 (photo Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal).
Proponents of Ohio call on the governor of Mike Dewine to bring home soldiers to the National Guard in Ohio recently deployed in Washington
President Donald Trump said on August 11 that he would send the soldiers of the National Guard to Washington to part and Ohio is one of the six states that until now sent soldiers to Washington
Army secretary Daniel P. Driscoll asked Dewine on Friday To send 150 members from the Ohio National Guard to Washington, and members of the National Guard in Ohio went to a 30-day distribution.
“The distribution of the National Guard should be reserved in situations where the security of citizens and the integrity of our nation are actually threatened,” he said Common cause of the executive director Ohio Catherine Turcer. “We are here today, calling on the governor of Dewine to immediately dismiss the National Guard. “
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee also sent soldiers – all countries with republican governors.
“It’s not too overdue to go gov. Dewine … To cancel it ill Considered, legally problematic and unjustified mission – said the former democratic House representative Ohio Adam Miller. “This political theater must end. Our National Guard families and our soldiers deserve something better.”
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“Ohio traditionally helped the Colombia district, mayors of Ohio and other states, when they ask for help from the Ohio National Guard or the Ohio State Motorway Patrol,” said Dewine spokesman, Dan Tierney, asked about the distribution.
The Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia did not ask for the distribution of the national guard soldiers, and the mayor of Washington Muriel Bowser spoke against the distribution.
“The worst thing you can do because every military leader is sanctioning an unjustified action,” said Miller, who is running for the 15th Congress District Ohio. He is too A colonel with over 20 years of service in the American Army reserve, who was a judge of a general lawyer of the Corps official.
Miller said that none of the 150 soldiers placed in Ohio is part of the emergency response forces package.
“This is a false emergency situation,” said Miller. “Behad of our command chain for not asking questions for not making independent due diligence and taking our service from the existing training and in a dangerous situation.”
Miller praised the governor Vermont Phil Scott, a republican, for rejecting the application for the distribution of national guard soldiers.
“We have to say when something happens outside our legal bodies, outside the scope of our mission,” said Miller.
According to the National Guard in Ohio, it is one of the largest in the country with about 17,000 soldiers and pilots 122. Army National Guard team.
“We are involved in many operations abroad,” said Miller. “We have special forces. You don’t pull people out of critical global terrorism missions for the political theater. Placing soldiers and their families in a mission for which they are not well trained is the worst thing you can do as a military leader, and the governor must be more likely to say “no”, or at least ask questions. “
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“With members of the United States, including some of our state, coming out of the order in Washington, in order to disinfect and cleanse the city of people whose only crime is homeless, it is clear that the sentence was achieved,” said the reverend Jack Sullivan, Jr., executive director of the Churches of Ohio. “It is clear to us that the so -called crisis of homelessness and crime in Washington only serves as the justification for military mobilization produced.”
Legislative Director of ACLU OHIO Gary Daniels said that Dewine “decided to be part of the problem instead of part of the solution.”
“Taking a National Guard to arriving in another area of ​​the country should only be used for the most extreme examples in which they are really needed, and not for what we see here,” said Daniels. “What exactly is the output strategy here?”
Herring reporter capital journal Megan Henry on BlueSky.
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