The last of the 300 Connecticut National Guard members deployed to Washington D.C. last week returned home Monday after a highly unusual, but relatively quiet, mission to secure the nation’s capital for President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony.
The contingent joined more than 26,000 guard members from across the country to prevent violent demonstrations in Washington in the wake of the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.
But with enormous security measures in place, no such demonstrations materialized and none of the Connecticut guard members encountered disturbances at their posts along various checkpoints near the Capitol complex, the guard said Monday.