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The DC deployment of troops risks further politicizing our military + militarizing American streets, said a grp of retired service secretaries, 4-star admirals & generals in a brief filed by Protect Democracy United. The DC AG has sued over the deployment. counteveryhero.org/letter_docum...

As Guard morale dips & public grows less supportive of the campaign, the “proliferation of domestic deployments of the National Guard for missions outside their core duties also threatens the long-term readiness of the Guard & the U.S. military,” wrote the retired natsec leaders.

The impact is felt beyond DC, in communities where many of the deployed live. “Most Guard members have families and civilian lives that they put on hold when deployed, and employers who may grow frustrated by frequent, months-long absences on politically controversial missions.”