WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
Today, during a Senate Armed Services Committee (https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-administrations-deployment-of-the-national-guard-across-the-united-states) hearing on the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard across U.S. cities, Arizona Senator and Navy combat veteran Mark Kelly raised concerns about President Trump's recent suggestion that American cities should be used as "training grounds" for the National Guard, and the risk that poses to civil-military norms and Americans' safety.
Kelly underscored the difference between real public safety and turning American neighborhoods into military training gr...