WASHINGTON —President Donald Trump has put 1,500 active-duty U.S. soldiers have on standby for possible deployment into Minnesota. Such a deployment would be a rare and possibly illegal use of the U.S. Insurrection Act of 1807, which was intended. to put down locl revolts in extraordinary circumstances. Sources said the active-duty soldiers would come from ttwo battalions of the 11th Airborne Division based in Alaska. The assigned mission of the 11th Airborne is to deter aggression from China. In Washington ABC News quoted said a Pentagon official confirming reports about Trump’s plan but emphasized it doesn’t mean they necessarily will be deployed: “We are preparing options.” Trump has grown increasingly agitated at citizen resistance in Minesota to his massive arrests of immigrants with rogue tactics.
11th Airborne. Home is Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at Anchorage. Specialties: include arctic warfare, airborne operations, and urban warfare.