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Available reporting shows at least two National Guard members were shot near the White House on Nov. 26, 2025; multiple outlets—including West Virginia Watch, Reuters and state officials—report those ...
Multiple leaked Pentagon memos and reporting show the National Guard Bureau has ordered states to create “quick reaction forces” trained in civil disturbance operations, including crowd management, ri...
When National Guard units are placed on federal active duty, command ultimately shifts to the President as Commander-in-Chief, with authority operationally delegated through the Secretary of Defense a...
Available reporting documents a high-profile November 26, 2025 ambush that left two West Virginia National Guard members critically wounded while deployed in Washington, D.C.; coverage does not provid...
On January 4, 2021 Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted written requests for limited District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) assistance for January 5–6, specifying crowd management and traffic/control rol...
Pete Hegseth reached the rank of major in the Army National Guard and was placed in the Individual Ready Reserve after that promotion; multiple profiles say he was promoted to major around 2014–2015 (...
The available reporting shows Multiple outlets describe deployments to Los Angeles and mention possible or prospective activations in Chicago and other cities, but the total number of cities “activati...
The President can federalize National Guard units and deploy them without a governor’s consent in limited, legally specified circumstances — chiefly under federal statutes (including the Insurrection ...
The legal thresholds for federalizing a state National Guard require —an invasion by a foreign nation, an outright rebellion, or a failure of ordinary federal forces to execute federal law—which are c...
Title 32 keeps Guard members under state control (with federal funding) and generally allows governors and state authorities to set certain domestic missions and some rules of engagement, while Title ...
Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative count of every distinct National Guard “deployment” to Washington, D.C., since 2000; recent reporting documents major activations in 2020, 2021...
Available public records and mainstream reporting in the provided sources show multiple official Department of Defense and National Guard–linked biographies and documents that state Pete Hegseth serve...
There is no single, authoritative count in the available sources for “how many times” the National Guard has been deployed domestically since 2000; reporting and trackers focus on types, trends, and n...
There is extensive recent reporting that the National Guard is being ordered to create “quick reaction forces” trained in crowd control and civil disturbance operations across all 50 states and territ...
The claim that “Pete Kegsbreath” held a role in the District of Columbia National Guard is unsupported by available records and appears to be a . Publicly documented service in the Army National Guard...
The Secretary of Defense has a central operational role in placing National Guard units into federal service and coordinating deployments, but that authority sits amid legal challenges and active legi...
The Department of Defense (DoD) controls federal military forces and determines when federal mission authorities apply, while state governors are the constitutional commanders of their National Guard ...
Public access to National Guard officers’ personnel records is constrained by federal privacy rules and a mix of federal and state repositories: limited extracts (dates of service, awards, rank) can b...
Department of Defense biographies of National Guard members typically present high-level, personnel-focused summaries of deployments—dates, theaters, and broad mission labels—whereas unit-level operat...
Available reporting shows public biographies list Pete Hegseth’s service in the Army National Guard and rank of major, and government sites (Defense/War Dept) publish a formal biography of him . The p...