The 150 Ohio National Guard troops deployed to Washington D.C. were expected to come home just after the Thanksgiving holiday. But their mission – which the Trump administration has said was to fight crime, though troops have been seen landscaping and picking up trash - has been extended.

The D.C. deployed troops were set to return Nov. 30, but that’s been extended to Feb. 28.

“We're there and in support of the D.C. police and really of the D.C. Guard,” said Gov. Mike DeWine in an interview. “We’re going to stay there for a while.”

DeWine said the state has been switching out guard members, bringing some home and replacing them with other volunteers since they were first deployed to the nation’s capital in August.

“People have lives and they have families and they have jobs,” DeWine sa

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