Tourists go through members of the National Guard who were stationed outside the Union Station in Washington, on August 18, 2025 (photo of Jane Norman/States Newsroom)
Retired military and busy families Ohio spoke to the governor Mike Dewine, recently arranging soldiers of the National Guard in Ohio in Washington at the request of President Donald Trump.
Trump said that at the beginning of this month he would send the soldiers of the National Guard to Washington
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“This is not a national accident,” said Kenneth Harbaugh, president of Valor Media Network. “The influence on the morale of these soldiers on earth is tangible when they are detached from their families, when they have to miss their birthday and graduate, and at the beginning of school and the like to guard the cocktail.”
Trump also spoke Probably sending soldiers to other cities including Chicago, New York and Baltimore.
“Current implementation … and those that are considered in other places in the whole country in the near future are unnecessary and disturbing the lives of all these citizens,” he said Christopher Dziubek, retired brigade general of the American army.
Army secretary Daniel P. Driscoll asked Dewin on August 15 to send 150 members from the Ohio National Guard to Washington, and members of the National Guard in Ohio are currently at a 30-day arrangement.
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Karolina, West Virginia and Tennessee also sent troops – all countries with republican governors.
“These deployments in DC are not in an emergency and will exceed the use of our army,” he said Veteran of the National Guard of the Ohio Army, Jermaine Collins. “Our civic soldiers are simply disrespectful to pull them away from their families and community, to police a unable population in DC and help ICE in mass deportations.”
Part of Trump’s repression on a crime comes from a recent executive order This forces those who experience homelessness outside the streets.
“Our loved ones are distributed, not for defense, not for the help of a disaster, not for crisis situations, but for missions that are unclear, polarizing and even cosmetic,” said Brandi Jones, military wife Ohio and executive director of the Safe Family initiative. “Sealaving cities is not a task of the army.”
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.
“People did not sign up for the national guard to become political pawns” Collins said. “If our citizens soldiers wanted to become an PD metro or ICE agents, they would sign up instead of the national guard. … branches of the National Guard should not be used as political pawns. “
Trump has the right to request soldiers of the National Guard to Washington
“But the trigger of using these legal bodies is in an emergency … where normal local authorities are covered by a lack of resources or are completely mastered by brutal riots, protesters, emerging (or) rebels” – said Dan Maurer, a veteran of the American Army and Ohio Northern University of Law.
He said that sixty cities have a higher index of crimes using violence than Washington.
“The governor should have been asking questions … for example:” Well, what exactly do we deal with the situation of the situation? … What are the facts in the field that justify the extraordinary operate of the national guard of another state on the streets of American cities to perform law enforcement agencies? “Maurer said.
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.
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