In Los Angeles, the morale of the California National Guardsmen mobilized by Trump is at its lowest
Deployed to the City of Angels since early June on orders from the White House, some California National Guard soldiers are questioning the mission entrusted to them. And those who remain mobilized are seriously bored, according to US media reports.
When California National Guard soldiers were deployed to Los Angeles to respond to devastating wildfires in January, “residents welcomed the troops as heroes,” The New York Times recalls .
Seven months later, the atmosphere in the City of Angels has changed dramatically. Deployed since early June on White House orders to maintain public order and suppress protests against ICE raids, the California National Guardsmen are feeling low.
The level of contempt they face is causing some to question their mission, and others to resign. During the demonstrations, “protesters mock the troops guarding federal office buildings, and motorists curse the gigantic military convoys clogging the highways,” the New York daily notes.
It even happens that "members of their own families harass the soldiers with questions about whether they really have to obey the orders of the federal authorities."
The result: disarray in the ranks of the California National Guard. The New York Times interviewed a dozen soldiers, officers, and
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