Mobilization To Washington Continues, 260 Additional National Guard Soldiers Meeting After Shooting

US National Guard Soldiers. (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - The state governments of Oklahoma and Arkansas will send 260 members of the National Guard troops to Washington DC in the near future.

Citing ABC News, Wednesday, December 3, the mobilization of these troops resumed after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week promised to thicken the number of National Guard troops with the delivery of additional members reaching 500 soldiers.

The deployment of these additional soldiers after the shooting incident of two members of the National Guard near West Washington Metro Station was not far from the White House on Wednesday 26 November.

A US Army spokesman said the number of National Guard members in Washington will continue to grow over the next few weeks, but there is no target date or deadline to reach 500 soldiers.

Oklahoma will send about 160 soldiers of the National Guard and Arkansas as many as 100 personnel. Hundreds of these soldiers will join the 2,200 members of the National Guard from eight other states and the District of Columbia, Washington.

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said Tuesday that as many as 2,200 members of the National Guard forces in Washington are now armed, including later 500 additional soldiers

He confirmed that National Guard troops in Washington are now conducting joint patrols with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department.