Pentagon Adds 500 National Guardsmen to DC Following Deadly Shooting - Hegseth

NAMPA / Sputnik

2025-11-27

WASHINGTON, November 27 (RIA Novosti) – The Pentagon will deploy 500 additional members of the US National Guard after two of its members were killed in a shooting near the White House, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in his first comments following the tragic incident. “President [Donald] Trump has asked me, and I will ask the Secretary of the Army to the National Guard to add 500 additional troops, National Guardsmen, to Washington, D.C......

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