Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley defended efforts to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol during the insurrection and said approval was given at „sprint speed,“ The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
„If the forces… were ready to go as part of the preparatory stuff, then I’d say, OK, that’s a fair assessment. But this is the D.C. National Guard that went from a cold start, and they had troops there in two and a half, three hours,“ Milley told reporters on Monday in his first public remarks about the Pentagon’s response to the attack, according to the newspaper. „They reacted faster than our most elite forces from a cold start.“ The newspaper also reported that Defense officials approved the request to send National Guard members to the US Capitol in nearly an hour, in which Milley said was „super fast“ and „like sprint speed“ for the Pentagon.
