2026-08-24 · NPR Topics: News
🔮 As the sight of armed, uniformed National Guard troops became ubiquitous in Washington, D.C. over the past year, one voice has been notably absent from the public discourse around the deployment: the guard members themselves.
"I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left in my mouth, it actually embarrasses me to be involved in any way," one guard member who was part of the deployment for several months recently told NPR. assertive