Nebraska to deploy 200 National Guard members to D.C. as security for nation's 250th anniversary

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Nebraska Examiner

By: Erin Bamer - January 22, 2026 11:04 am

LINCOLN — Roughly 200 of Nebraska’s National Guard members will be sent to Washington, D.C., to serve as security for the country’s 250th anniversary celebration, Gov. Jim Pillen announced Thursday.

Nebraska will join 10 other states Pillen said are “answering the call” after being asked by the chief of the National Guard Bureau to keep national monuments safe. He said the initiative has been ongoing since August. Nebraska is sending troops in late February.

“This [is] everybody’s Capitol,” said Lt. Gov. Joe Kelly, a former prosecutor. “Not Virginia’s, not Maryland’s, but a federal Capitol. Now Nebraska is delighted to do our bid to keep that place safe.”

Nebraska’s mission will last between 90 to 120 days, according to Maj. Gen. Craig Strong, Nebraska’s adjutant general. Working in groups of four, Strong said Nebraska’s troops will primarily serve as monument security and conduct safety patrols throughout the Capitol region.


Maj. Gen. Craig Strong (left), and Gov. Jim Pillen (right), speak about an upcoming deployment of 200 Nebraska National Guard members to Washington D.C. (Erin Bamer/Nebraska Examiner)

Read more: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/nebraska-to-deploy-200-national-guard-members-to-d-c-as-security-for-nations-250th-anniversary/

[Norrrm]

1. Does Trump need more groundskeepers and trash collectors?

[Tim S]

2. Funny how none of this was necessary for the Bicentennial...

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

3. Your tax dollars at work.

"Pillen said the mission would not cost Nebraska taxpayers “a nickel,” as the project is entirely federally funded."

[BaronChocula]

4. Who'll remind them how to handle illegal orders?

And who'll give the primer that "I was just following orders" won't save you in court

[flashman13]

5. Troops in the streets of the capital in full battle rattle to commemorate the Declaration of Independence.

What is wrong with this picture?

If I may quote with a few minor alterations.

The history of the
present President of the United States is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in
direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and
sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our
people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace,
Standing Armies without the Consent of our
legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military
independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to
a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and
unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent
to their acts of pretended Legislation:


For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from
punishment for any Murders which they should
commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the
world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Con-
sent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits
of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried
for pretended offenses:

In every stage of these Oppressions We have
Petitioned for Redress in the most humble
terms: Our repeated Petitions have been
answered only by repeated injury. A President, whose
character is thus marked by every act which
may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of
a free people.