West Virginia Sends Hundreds of National Guard Members
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South Carolina and Ohio say they will send a combined 350 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., supplementing a surge of troops from Republican-led states.
The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.
It was the first such action by the Guard since its deployment in Washington.
Federal agents who typically investigate drug lords, weapons traffickers or cyber criminals have fanned out across the nation’s capital.
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