1,500 troops on standby for Minnesota deployment, 2 protection officers say

Some 1,500 energetic responsibility Army paratroopers have been placed on alert for a possible deployment to Minnesota, in accordance with two protection officers.

The troopers are from the eleventh Airborne Division, primarily based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, one of many Army’s premier infantry formations and a frontline power within the U.S. army presence within the Pacific, positioned to assist deter China. The division can also be the army’s main formation for Arctic warfare.


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