Washington:
Twelve US National Guard troops have been pulled from duty guarding the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, partly due to an investigation of extremist sympathies in the ranks, the Pentagon stated Tuesday.
Two of the 12 had been removed from duty for generating “inappropriate comments or texts,” stated National Guard Commander General Daniel Hokanson.
The two had been sent house, he stated, declining to clarify what was stated in the comments.
They had been pulled from the force “out of an abundance of caution,” he stated.
The removal of the other 10 troops was also unexplained, but was “unrelated to the events taking place at the Capitol or to the concerns that many people have noted on extremism,” stated Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman.
The actions against the 12 came amid issues that the far-correct extremists who took a portion in the assault on the US Capitol on January 6 have associates or sympathizers in the US military.
Concerned about a probable threat to Biden or other individuals, the FBI has investigated regardless of whether there had been extremists amongst the up 25,000 National Guard troops getting deployed in Washington to maintain safety for the inauguration.
We “want to make sure that we have the right people in the security bubble,” General William Walker, head of the Washington National Guard, told Fox News on Monday.
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