Anticipating demonstrations and disturbances, DC Guard deployment to continue through end of March January 26 Soldiers with the North Carolina National Guard ride a Metro train that will get them to the station they will guard for the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. (Sgt. Abraham Morlu/Army National Guard) The entire D.C. National Guard will remain activated through March 31 due to worries of renewed civil disturbances, and thousands more troops will remain on duty in the nation’s capital until at least mid-March, according to documents obtained by Military Times and statements from National Guard officials. Military Times obtained a Jan. 25 orders memorandum by Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the D.C. Guard, stating that the D.C. Guard’s troops will remain “encamped” through March 31 due to “anticipated First Amendment demonstrations and Civil Disturbance response in the District of Columbia.” Politico first obtained the me