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By Staff Sgt. S. Patrick McCollum
58th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than 1,000 Maryland National Guard citizen-soldiers and -Airmen will assist here to help with security for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Elements of the 58th Infantry Brigade Combat Team's Task Force Maryland 400, made up of Guard members from Annapolis and Dundalk, converged on the mall, Jan. 19, to begin security operations.
The Task Force will assist U.S. Park police on the National Mall. One group of Maryland citizen-soldiers will perform crowd control, security, and other missions in the area from the Lincoln Memorial to 14th Street, while other Soldiers will help control access closer to the Capitol, helping to manage more than two million anticipated spectators. The Soldiers were also deputized in a brief swearing-in ceremony by D.C. police officers, which give them special police powers if necessary.
Units involved in supporting the Maryland Guard's effort are the 1st Squadron, 158 Cavalry Regiment, the 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, the Maryland Air Guard's 175th Security Forces Squadron, the115th Military Police Battalion, the 200th MP Company, 290th MP Co., 243 Engineering Co., and the 729th Brigade Support Battalion. Soldiers from the Special Troops Battalion, 58th BCT are standing by in Cheltenham, Md. and Towson, Md. as a Quick Reaction Force in the event of an emergency.
"We moved more than a thousand Soldiers from across the state," said Col. Charles Whittington, commander of the 58th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. "I'm proud to lead them in this historic event."
Maryland Guard members will return to their home station this evening.
| Date Taken: | 01.19.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 01.20.2009 13:29 |
| Story ID: | 29061 |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DC, US |
| Web Views: | 345 |
| Downloads: | 277 |
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