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Recent Examples of national guardIn Minnesota, more than 500 members of the state’s national guard were sent to St. Paul, Minneapolis, and surrounding communities because of the increase in demonstrations in the area, officials said at the time.—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 25 May 2025 In Acapulco on Wednesday, there was a strong presence of the national guard and police in the streets, but most visible were trucks from the national power company.—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 June 2025 And a Republican governor called in the national guard.—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 13 June 2025 The move came over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, marking the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.—Jake Offenhartz, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for national guard
Nearly 170,000 active-duty troops are stationed abroad, a number larger than the entire standing army of many countries, including Canada.
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The nine-person delegation from Iceland, the alliance’s only member without a standing army, occupies a half-dozen offices; France has a whole floor; Germany has two.
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