National Guard Association Disagrees with Defense Secretary’s Order to Occupy Capitol

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National Guard Association Disagrees with Defense Secretary’s Order to Occupy Capitol

Wendell Husebo 13 Mar 2021

The chairman of the National Guard Association, representing more than 450,000 citizen soldiers, says it is time for the Capitol Police to resume responsibility for the safety of the Capitol, agreeing with Daniel Hokanson, the National Guard bureau chief general, who Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overruled on Tuesday.

According to a report, the National Guard Association Chairman and Arizona Adjunct General, Major General Michael McGuire, said, “This enduring requirement of having them around the city, I think it’s completely inappropriate at best, illegal at worst.”

The comment comes after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a two-month continuation for nearly 2,300 Guard members to “buy them [Capitol Police] some time and space.”

Daniel Hokanson said in a memo from March 4 that “he disagreed with Austin’s decision given Guard responsibilities in their home states,” the Washington Examiner reported.

McGuire is the only adjunct general to deny National Guard deployment authorization to Washington, DC since January 9.

“Every American citizen should be concerned that an unelected Cabinet secretary can move forces into the city,” McGuire said. “The National Guard specifically is the last line of defense for direct policing action only in the emergent period when it is life, limb, protection of property.”

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