Only 250 California National Guard troops of the roughly 4,000 deployed to Los Angeles last month remain on duty. They will continue the mission to protect federal personnel and property in and around the city, the Pentagon says.

Wu said that while it’s “not acceptable” for residents to have to side-step needles and fear for their safety at and around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, the open-air drug use, filth and violence that has spilled over into surrounding neighborhoods does not warrant a response from the U.S. military.

The Guard base owned by the state will now bear the name of Capt. Jacques Toutant Beauregard, who fought in the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, the last major fight of the conflict between American and British troops.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert F. Cruz, 8th Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team, was awarded the medal during a ceremony at the Colorado Freedom Memorial, Aurora, Colo.

The South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Fighter Wing conducted a maximum generation elephant walk to demonstrate its ability to project fighter airpower at Joe Foss Field, S.D.

More than 300 airmen from the Idaho Air National Guard touched down at Gowen Field, Idaho, after a three-month deployment to the Middle East.

Members of the Coast Guard and Texas National Guard helped rescue more than 700 people trapped by devastating flooding across the Texas Hill Country that has resulted in more than 80 deaths, including 27 children.

The troops were among more than 4,000 Guard members and 700 active-duty Marines sent to the city by President Donald Trump as immigration-related protests in early June swelled near a federal building in the downtown area.

Alaska Army National Guard aviators rescued a family of six, including an elderly woman and child, stranded for almost 24 hours on the Kuskokwim River near Tuntutuliak during a storm.

Around 315 National Guard troops assisted the Drug Enforcement Agency in executing a federal search warrant Wednesday on suspected illegal marijuana farms in Thermal, a desert community around 25 miles southeast of Palm Springs.