On the 14th....21k Guardsmen were authorized to be in DC. Based on commentary from different sources, I don’t think that the whole crowd arrived on 19th/20th to be in position for the inauguration.
Several states have said they are recalling their Guardsmen, but I believe once federalized...the states has no say in the matter.
I think the general plan is that the second week of Feb...the impeachment would start up and they believe the full 25k would be in place to ‘protect’ the House/Senate. It’ll be rather comical have the landscape filled with Guardsmen and avoid saying the word ‘coup’. It’s what you’d view in Paraguay.
One issue that I see brewing...there’s virtually no quarters provided to the Guardsmen and the idea of a one month deployment sleeping on the floors of the capital building probably won’t work for more than 2,000 of them. The rest? Unknown. You would think that FEMA or someone would be putting up a tent-shelter city but that would indicate long-term presence (which I think they want to avoid).
Even if they used every single military related structure around DC (even the Pentagon hallways), it’s an extremely short-term 2-star solution.
The Daily Mail is reporting that the guardsmen have hotel rooms, but that they are taking rest breaks during their 12 hour shifts at the Capital complex (inside before, in the garages, and now back indoors)
The whole situation seems overblown and ridiculous.
They'll be rotating staff out. Activated guard are positions, not individuals and units can swap out as needed (medical, etc.) One factor is who pays for the transportation if someone is rotated out of cycle. Air tanker and transportation units had the luxury of moving staff around the world whereas other units had to pay commercial carriers.