Daniel P. Driscoll

A lot of them have all of these talents.

What's so cool about the National Guard is because they're full-time in other jobs, we can get these really niche-y experiences to help us.

We have engineers.

We have computer programmers.

We have people who are in law enforcement.

And we can help bolster whatever the need of the community is.

And so...

as it's specifically related to D.C.

in the beginning, we put them out on presence patrols.

And one of the things I think that from my time in Iraq, you heard presence patrol and it kind of like sent shivers up your spine because of the stupid presence patrols that we would do in Iraq, in my opinion, because the mission hadn't been defined and you would be doing it as more of a check the block exercise.

For this exercise in D.C., that's not it at all.

We have communities and neighborhoods

that are suffering terrible, like a scourge of violent crime.

And by having our soldiers there, it is making a meaningful impact.

So I think last week I heard that carjackings in the city are down 85%.

85% since President Trump did this.

And again, to your point, Sean, like no one's writing about it that I'm seeing.

But like, this is obviously making a difference.

And this is the thing that I think happened in the last election.

Americans are just sick of being double-speaked to.