National Guard members from Florida providing Inauguration Day security

There are tens of thousands of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The effort required to coordinate all those troops is massive, especially with all of them on such high alert.

The 600 soldiers and airmen from Florida are working 24 hours a day. Their main duty is securing the National Mall and the monuments. Each shift starts with an update on the latest threats.

“We are kept up to date through… here in the capital, [at] any time, there’s a slew of different intelligence agencies, so that information does trickle down to the soldiers,” said Capt. Alexander Emrich. “So we do update them on any immediate threats as well as any more conceptual threats.”