Gen. Joseph Lengyel, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, told reporters there are more than 18,000 National Guard members responding to civil unrest across 29 states and Washington, DC, with that number still increasing.
There are more than 42,000 members working on Covid-19 operations as well, according to Lengyel.
He also said there was a reduction in violence last night across the country, even though they saw “sustained or even increasing levels of protest.” There were no Guard members reported injured last night.
Nearly 1,300 members of the DC National Guard were on duty “and they were augmented last night by some additional soldiers from Utah and from New Jersey,” Lengyel said. An additional nearly 1,500 members are expected to augment DC from Indiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
“The civil unrest mission is one of the most difficult and dangerous missions that we do here in our domestic portfolio of mission sets,” Lengyel said. “Generally, this mission is an uncomfortable mission. They don’t like doing it… our Guard members live and work and are from these communities.
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