The last two years have seen a rash of domestic crises and the National Guard has been on the frontline responding to everything from the Covid-19 pandemic to historic fires and flooding, and even widespread protests.
A proposal to send Israel $1 billion for the Iron Dome air defense system has been cut out of a stopgap government funding bill, meant to avoid a government shutdown after Sept. 30, in order to ease its passage in the House.
Soldiers with Task Force 46 and associated medical personnel from the Army’s Medical Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and the 531st Hospital Center at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have begun arriving in Wisconsin.