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Thousands of National Guard members have served in the L.A. region since last month. Six soldiers spoke in interviews about low morale over the deployment.
Pentagon confirms that 2,000 California National Guard members are being withdrawn from the mission to protect federal buildings and personnel that followed ICE protests.
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The Trump administration is releasing thousands of California National Guard troops from a federal mission in Los Angeles.
Eight of CalGuard's 14 firefighting crews — known as Task Force Rattlesnake — have been deployed to Los Angeles as part of Trump's federalization of the Guard, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
More than half of the California National Guard’s firefighting teams were put under federal command, with no way to recall them.
“There’s not much to do,” one Marine, who was not named, told the Los Angeles Times. After the protests died down a month ago, the marine said his duties had mostly involved approving access for visitors and workers at the Veterans Affairs office.
The Pentagon announced a major rollback of the Trump administration's response to protests over immigration raids in California.