More than 700 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne are going back to Fort Bragg tonight, and hundreds of MPs from Fort Drum could go home Friday.
WASHINGTON — The more than 1,600 active-duty soldiers who were called to Washington, D.C., in case President Donald Trump invoked the Insurrection Act to deal with protestors may soon go back to their bases around the country"if conditions allow," a senior defense official told NBC News.
A decision to send the soldiers from the 82nd Airborne back south was made on Wednesday, but then reversed, said the official, because the administration got word there might be a large demonstration in the capital this weekend and wanted to make sure it could respond."Now they are confident they can," said the official.
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