{"id":238079,"date":"2021-03-17T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=238079"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:31:08","slug":"400-ill-national-guard-troops-return-home-from-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/400-ill-national-guard-troops-return-home-from-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"400 Ill. National Guard troops return home from D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F400-ill-national-guard-troops-return-home-from-d-c%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=238079&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2387758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2387758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Guard soldiers open a gate of the razor wire-topped perimeter fence around the Capitol to allow a colleague in at sunrise in Washington, Monday, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:21 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, March 17, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Several members of the Illinois National Guard are returning home from the nation\u2019s capitol. In a press briefing Tuesday, Major General Richard Neely said about 400 troops returned home on Monday from the U.S. Capitol Security Mission.<\/p>\n<p>This came after the Defense Department asked the state to provide additional security following the January 6 break-in. At the time, General Neely said the 198th Combat Support Battalion provided the bulk of that manpower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud of the soldiers, these airmen, that stepped up to the mission and volunteered to go forward and support the nation\u2019s capitol,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd continue the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>General Neely went on to announce that more than 100 of the state\u2019s guardsmen will remain in the nation\u2019s capital until mid-May.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, I sent the following letter to General Hokanson, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Secretary of Defense Austin to express my concerns with the politicization of our military. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gah7E5hjUQ\">pic.twitter.com\/gah7E5hjUQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1371916965099532292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, many Republican lawmakers have continued to call for the National Guard to be sent home to be reunited with their families. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has accused Democrat of politicizing the armed forces as \u201ca <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">political tool to harass the press, Congress and Americans\u201d who want to visit the U.S. Capitol.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/rep-jackson-democrats-ignore-livelihoods-ruined-by-lockdowns\/\"> Rep. Jackson: Democrats ignore livelihoods ruined by lockdowns<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Guard soldiers open a gate of the razor wire-topped perimeter fence around the Capitol to allow a colleague in at sunrise in Washington, Monday, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo\/Carolyn &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275707,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}