Two hundred South Carolina National Guard (SCNG) troops deployed to Washington, D.C., in early August as part of President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown should be back in the Palmetto State by Sept. 30.

“South Carolina National Guard will conduct a relief-in-place with the Georgia National Guard and expects its soldiers to return home to South Carolina before the end of the month,” Maj. Karla N. Evans told Statehouse Report in a Sept. 11 email.

S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster authorized the Washington deployment on Aug. 16, after President Donald Trump declared a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital.

News that S.C.’s Guardsmen would soon be heading home came on the heels of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s Sept. 5 announcement that his state would contribute 300 troops to relieve some soldier

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