'Not what any of us signed up for': National Guard members on Trump's deployments

By Kat Lonsdorf,

Steve Inskeep

Published November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM EST

NPR sat down with several National Guard members in Ohio to talk through how they feel about President Trump's deployments to U.S. cities and the role the guard is playing.

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