{"id":58623,"date":"2021-01-19T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/19\/two-army-national-guard-members-are-being-removed-from-security-mission-to-secure-biden-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:43:45","slug":"two-army-national-guard-members-are-being-removed-from-security-mission-to-secure-biden-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2021\/01\/19\/two-army-national-guard-members-are-being-removed-from-security-mission-to-secure-biden-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon won\u2019t say what got 12 Guard troops sent home from Biden inauguration duty in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=a71d4304-9df6-4b57-a96c-9168f291384c\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-a71d4304-9df6-4b57-a96c-9168f291384c.png\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">National Guard troops in Washington in the wake of a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 talk about the experience of being mobilized.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twelve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/01\/18\/15000-national-guard-troops-now-in-dc-for-inauguration-in-operation-named-joint-task-force-district-of-columbia\/\" target=_blank>National Guard troops deployed to Washington <\/a>ahead of President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration were flagged during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/01\/18\/fbi-vetting-guard-troops-in-dc-amid-fears-of-insider-attack\/\" target=_blank>background checks<\/a> and have been sent home, Defense Department officials confirmed Tuesday, offering scant details as to what raised suspicions about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of those were flagged for \u201cinappropriate comments or texts,\u201d Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2021\/01\/11\/national-guard-inauguration-deployment-twice-as-large-as-troop-levels-in-afghanistan-and-iraq-combined\/\" target=_blank>Nation Guard Bureau<\/a>, told reporters, including one reported within their own chain of command. Hokanson\u2019s comments refute a Tuesday story from the Associated Press that all 12 troops removed from the Capitol had right-wing militia ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf there\u2019s any identification or anything whatsoever that needs to be looked into, out of an abundance of caution, we automatically pull those personnel off the line and make sure that they\u2019re not part of the mission set \u2015 and in certain cases, we make sure that they get sent home,\u201d Hokanson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI has been working to vet more than 25,000 National Guard troops who\u2019ve been mobilized to Washington, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters, but he could not say how many background checks had been completed as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan has been to remove first and ask questions later, Hoffman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2020\/06\/05\/guardsman-removed-from-dc-mission-after-fbi-said-troop-expressed-white-supremacist-ideology-online\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0774.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Guardsman removed from DC mission after FBI said troop \u2018expressed white supremacist ideology\u2019 online<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cFollowing due process, it is highly likely that this individual will be permanently removed\u201d from the Guard, said DeWine.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither Hoffman nor Hokanson responded to requests for details on what would flag a guardsman deployed for Capitol security, whether that was specific ties to extremism, documented threats against Capitol or inauguration security or political speech against the Biden or supporting outgoing President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s no \u201chandbook\u201d for what pops a flag, Hoffman said, but troops are being pulled from duty, sent home and then investigated at the criminal or command level, according to the severity of the findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While not all 25,000 troops have been freshly vetted for this deployment, the FBI has time to work on them. 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