https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1932165375611031775#m
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/politics/marines-mobilized-los-angeles-protests
Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, according to three people familiar with the matter, and will join the thousands of National Guard troops that were activated by President Donald Trump over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or LA’s mayor.
The deployment of the full Marine battalion marks a significant escalation in Trump’s use of the military as a show of force against protesters, but it is still unclear what their task will be once in LA, the sources said. Like the National Guard troops, they are prohibited from conducting law enforcement activity like making arrests unless Trump invokes the Insurrection Act.
One of the people familiar with the Marine mobilization said they will be augmenting the Guard presence on the ground in LA. Over 2,000 members of the California National Guard have been activated by the president, but only about 300 have been deployed to the streets of LA so far. Those initial 300 people were on a routine National Guard drill weekend when they were mobilized, which is why they were able to arrive so quickly, the person familiar said; it can take up to 72 hours for other Guardsmen to be mobilized. The Marines are expected to bolster some of the Guard members who have been deployed to LA in the last two days, this person said.
While their tasks have not been specified publicly, they could include assignments like crowd control or establishing perimeter security. Lawyers within the Defense Department are also still finalizing language around the use of force guidelines for the troops being mobilized, but the person familiar said it will likely mirror the military’s standing rules of the use of force.
Weren’t the national guard created explicitly so they could be like “well, technically we’re not sending in the military
Not really, no. They were formed out of the first military organizations in the US that were local militias. The original purpose of the National Guard was so British colonists could kill Native Americans and French colonists. Attacks by these militias is one of the causes of the French-Indian War.
Around 1900, the Guard was reorganized into a reserve army for the rest of the US military. A lot of National Guard formed the bulk of the Confederate army during the Civil War. They were consistently used during westward expansion to protect settlers doing cracker shit and expelling Native Americans.
My 30 seconds of googling lead me to this
I changed the verb tense. For some reason it reads “It is officially created…” and that makes my eye twitch. Still - I’m very pleased how excellently google and Wikipedia worked in this case. I thought I’d have to spend ~5+ minutes of very annoyed googling and searching. Google was like the google of yore.