ATLANTA — Georgia is sending about 300 soldiers from the state's National Guard to Washington, D.C., Gov. Brian Kemp announced on Friday.

In total, a contingent of 316 Guardsmen will mobilize in and around the nation's capital, Kemp said.

District of Columbia National Guard troops who are deployed as part of President Donald Trump's federal law enforcement intervention in the nation's capital have had their orders extended through December, according to one National Guard official.

The official says the primary purpose of the extension is to ensure that any D.C. Guard members out on the streets of Washington will continue to have uninterrupted benefits and pay. The official says that while the extension doesn't mean that all 950 D.C. Guard troops now deployed will serve until the end of

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