{"id":268042,"date":"2025-10-01T02:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:26:17","slug":"portland-national-guard-deployment-bumped-by-administrative-delays-will-cost-at-least-3-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268042\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland National Guard deployment bumped by administrative delays, will cost at least $3.8 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Guard deployment to Portland<\/a> has been delayed beyond the guard\u2019s standard timeline as the Oregon Military Department works to prepare the 200 soldiers<\/a> who have volunteered, at a cost to the federal government of at least $3.8 million. <\/p>\n

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth moved Sunday to federalize<\/a> Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to Portland. The process to get all the troops ready to deploy normally takes about 96 hours, but it\u2019s going to take longer in this case, Lt. Col. Stephen Bomar said Tuesday, because of administrative tasks. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought we\u2019d probably be in the \u2018walk\u2019 phase now, but we\u2019re still in the \u2018crawl\u2019 phase, administratively,\u201d Bomar said. <\/p>\n

Bomar previously said<\/a> troops could be in Portland as soon as Thursday, and has now said that he thinks \u201cwe bump it out a couple more days.\u201d <\/p>\n

The mission length of 80 days includes several days of training, a 60-day deployment and demobilization, running through Dec. 16.<\/p>\n

Russell Gibson, governmental and legislative affairs director for the Oregon Military Department told state lawmakers Tuesday that it will cost the federal government about $3.8 million to pay the troops, not including the cost of logistics such as food, lodging and transportation.<\/p>\n

Already that figure is drawing groans from Democratic elected officials who have said Oregon doesn\u2019t need a militarized response to protests outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a waste of money,\u201d said U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum<\/a>. \u201cThere are other projects that we really do need help with here in the state, and we have every expectation that those should have been funded instead.\u201d <\/p>\n

The troops must go through administrative processing, which takes one to two days, and through use of force training, which takes three to five days, Gibson also told lawmakers.<\/p>\n

The new timeline means the deployment is unlikely to happen before a Friday hearing in federal court that could delay the deployment indefinitely. Oregon has filed for a temporary injunction, arguing in a motion this week that the decision to mobilize troops is illegal, unnecessary and harmful. <\/p>\n

Gov. Tina Kotek has said the next step<\/a> for her administration is to \u201cdelay, pause, redirect\u201d the troop deployment, citing the legal case and her so-far unsuccessful attempts to persuade President Donald Trump to reconsider. <\/p>\n

The U.S. North Command has taken control of two National Guard companies, Gibson said. One company is military police and the other is regular infantry, and both have training in crowd control, Gibson said. <\/p>\n

Troops won\u2019t be allowed to do any \u201cdirect law enforcement\u201d because that would violate a law forbidding the military from being used to police civilians, Gibson said.<\/p>\n

The Oregon Military Department has discovered that some guard members need updated training to allow them to be deployed. Others were out of town or faced other administrative barriers such as an out-of-date hearing test.<\/p>\n

All 200 troops must be ready to be deployed as one unit before troops hit the ground, Bomar said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying we\u2019re disorganized,\u201d Bomar said. \u201cIt\u2019s just \u2014 smooth is fast for us, and it would be way better to ensure everything is dialed in perfectly before any movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlos Fuentes of The Oregonian\/OregonLive contributed reporting. <\/p>\n

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