PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon's highest state-level military official addressed members of the Oregon National Guard in a memo on Monday, offering guidance and commiseration to soldiers and airmen ahead of President Donald Trump's mobilization of troops into Portland .

"Yesterday, the Department of Defense requested our support through U.S. Northern Command," wrote Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewald, Oregon's adjutant general. "The mission is straightforward: protect federal facilities and the federal employees working in them."

Under Title 10, the president can federalize state guard troops under a few specific circumstances — ones which are at issue in a lawsuit filed by the Oregon Attorney General's office. Unless the orders are blocked by a federal judge, they require the Oregon Militar

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