The National Guard said Monday it had deployed 12,000 additional Air and Army Guardsmen for civil-unrest response in 23 states and Washington, D.C., making the 67,000 members now on the streets for the protests and Covid-19 the largest number ever activated in the U.S. The National Guard expanded its civil-unrest presence from roughly 5,000 to 17,000 from Sunday to Monday following clashes over the weekend, reaching a total that surpassed the 51,000 activated during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina response.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 01, 2020 18:32 UTC