“The National Guard seems to have become Perosi’s personal police force,” the colonel strongly questioned

On Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Texas), who is a National Guard colonel, said he wondered what the rationale was for the National Guard’s heavy presence in D.C., saying the Guard looked like it was being used as “Nancy Pelosi’s personal police force, which is not the right role for our men and women in uniform,” according to Breitbart News. That’s not an appropriate role for our men and women in uniform.”

Waltz said, “I want to know what mission analysis, what threat reports are driving this presence, having five times, five times as many troops in Washington, D.C., as we have in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two and a half divisions staying in our nation’s capital. Folks, we have to remember, this is not the active duty military, this is not their day job. These servicemen and women have lives, jobs and businesses. Many of them are single Parents and have to make arrangements for their children. “

Waltz added, “The National Guard should be the one – they should absolutely be the last option. And now they seem to be Nancy Pelosi’s personal police force, which is not an appropriate role for our men and women in uniform.”