Overview
- About 300 Indiana Guardsmen arrived in Washington on Dec. 6 to support local and federal authorities with community safety patrols and traffic-control posts.
- Soldiers trained at Camp Atterbury since mid-November on response, crowd management and de-escalation, and will continue mission-specific preparation with Joint Task Force–District of Columbia.
- The deployment was authorized Nov. 19 by Gov. Mike Braun and is part of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful mission.
- The contingent includes troops from the 113th Engineer Battalion based in Gary, with additional soldiers from Bloomington-area units.
- Indiana’s rotation joins a broader multi-state presence that includes 150 Ohio Guard members, as scrutiny of the mission has intensified following a D.C. shooting that left one West Virginia Guardsman dead and another wounded.