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Military Police Troops Put on Alert for Possible Deployment to Minnesota [View all]
Source: New York Times
The Pentagon has ordered several hundred active-duty military police troops from Fort Bragg, N.C., to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota in the event that President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, according to a senior U.S. official.
The alert, which was described as precautionary, comes on top of a similar order issued recently to 1,500 infantry soldiers from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska and as many as 200 Texas National Guard troops.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/military-police-alert-minneapolis.html
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