A retired Army major general who also helped to lead the National Guard took President Donald Trump to task for his military deployments to multiple American cities, calling the tactic “un-American” and counterproductive.

In a column published on Monday in the Home of the Brave newsletter, Retired Maj. Gen. Randy Manner said the deployments to Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other areas are “being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform, their families, and their civilian employers.”

Manner served in the military for over 30 years and as the acting vice chief of the National Guard from 2011 to 2012.

In his column, Manner said there was “absolutely no legal or mission justification” for Trump’s deployments, and that they are an “absurd” misuse of t

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