Poor troops. I feel sorry for them. This is the army Mr. Jones. What a joke.
The question I have is what is the chain of command for all this? I think that other states can only provide NG if requested by another governor. I realize DC is unique, but I know for a fact that NG here in FL is being deployed and I doubt Desantis is volunteering FL NG for this. So has the NG been federalized? If so, that raises all sorts of interesting questions since I doubt Trump would over react like this.
The other option is SecDef is doing this without Trump’s authorization which I also doubt.
Couple that with the rather curious letter the JCS sent out a couple days ago to *.mil (the JCS have no command authority at all over any of the combatant commands in the US military - they are advisory only to the President) and complete silence from SecDef on the matter, and I wonder if something isn’t afoot.
Basically, I don’t understand how 20,000 NG get deployed to a single location without POTUS being directly involved.