3 states to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, DC
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Six states send National Guard troops to Washington as Trump deploys soldiers to combat crime, and federalizes Metropolitan Police Department.
Troops from the South Carolina National Guard will be arriving at the nation’s capital within the next 24 hours.
Today a group of South Carolina Army National Guard soldiers left for the nation’s capital. Approximately 70 soldiers of around 200 ordered by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster were deployed from the National Guard Armory in Union to support a federal security mission in Washington D.
The military vehicle, which is designed to withstand explosive attacks, collided with a "civilian vehicle" just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.