A 'herculean effort': How the National Guard fed and housed soldiers who came to D.C.
A 'herculean effort': How the National Guard fed and housed soldiers who came to D.C. Richard Leiby, The Washington Post Jan. 29, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Members of the National Guard outside the U.S. Capitol at sunrise on Jan. 19, 2021.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain. As part of a horde of journalists who swarmed Kuwait in early 2003, I knew it was inevitable: The United States was going to war with Iraq. But until it happened, we were impatient for stories, and the military tried to sell us one: Pay attention to the logistics. I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier g...