In 1934, Guardsmen battled striking workers with tear gas and the Armory was sandbagged after rumors of a bomb threat.
Michael Fisher, who was Chief of the Border Patrol from 2010 to 2015, said that during his time in office, Guardsmen took on tasks that allowed Border Patrol agents to better do their own jobs — part of a system they called "badges back to the border".
Headquartered mostly in Oklahoma City, the guardsmen fought in both World War II and the Korean War.
Meanwhile, cabinet ministers were being arrested in royal parks in flagrante with guardsmen.
Mr. Wittek, who lived in Ossining, N.Y., was 88. Coast Guardsmen in the New York area during the Second World War were known derisively to some as subway sailors.
Why are so many of our national guardsmen in Iraq instead of in New Orleans?
He compared the Tiananmen Square crackdown 15 years ago, in which possibly hundreds of students were shot to death by soldiers or crushed by tanks, to the fatal shooting of four Vietnam War protesters by edgy national guardsmen in 1970 at Kent State University in Ohio.
They came in every variety: Tampa police, sheriff's deputies from counties all over Florida, state troopers, national guardsmen in fatigues, rent-a-cops in private-security uniforms like the guy with the short fuse, large men in undersized white T-shirts that simply said "STAFF".
"The guardsmen in this unit will be specialists in clean up and rapid response if, God forbid, there were ever an event of chemical warfare," General Cugno said.
C1 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 OBITUARIES A19 James A. Rhodes A four-term Republican governor of Ohio, who will be remembered for sending in the national guardsmen who killed four antiwar protesters at Kent State in 1970, he was 91.
