Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said they were hospitalized in critical condition.
The rare shooting of National Guard members comes as the presence of the troops in the nation’s capital and other cities around the country has been a flashpoint issue for months, fueling court fights and a broader public policy debate about the Trump administration’s use of the military to combat what officials cast as an out-of-control crime problem.
People don’t join the national guard to invade somewhere and get shot at. The national guard is supposed to be protecting people at home.
Whoopsies! We kinda threw that out 20 years ago and never fixed it!
That’s not true. You serve both state and federal. I was in the NG. I did two tours in Iraq and a Bosnia peacekeeping mission. The NG gets deployed federally all the time.
Remind me, who’s homes are these out of state national guardsmen protecting, because it isnt their own
That’s what I’m saying. If you signed up to defend and then got assigned to invade DC, getting shot at in DC isn’t what you signed up for.
Then maybe they shouldn’t have invaded DC
Following orders and dog-like obedience is exactly what they signed up for. Getting shot at for following orders is a risk they proudly take.
Seems they were volunteers at this point in time.