National Guard may need supplemental funding after disaster relief operations

By Justin Doubleday / September 19, 2017 at 11:37 AM
The National Guard may need additional funding to help finance its operations after a busy start to the 2017 hurricane season, according to the head of the National Guard Bureau. The National Guard has responded to both Hurricane Harvey on the Gulf Coast and Hurricane Irma in Florida over the past few weeks, and guard forces are now positioned to respond to Hurricane Maria's expected landfall in Puerto Rico this week, Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel told reporters Tuesday morning...

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