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An active duty U.S. Army psychological operations officer assigned to a special operations group at Fort Bragg reportedly led at least 100 people to Washington, DC for the Jan. 6 event, apparently including an unknown number of other active duty personnel. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain-resigngs-washington-rally-army-investigating/
Fort Bragg is a nerve center for U.S. special operations and is the home of numerous special operations units, including U.S Army Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command.
https://home.army.mil/bragg/index.php/units-tenants
https://home.army.mil/bragg/index.php/units-tenants
Trump fired Secretary of Defense Esper shortly after losing the election. In his place, Trump appointed Acting SECDEF Miller, who is a veteran of the U.S. Army special operations community.
https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Biography/Article/2111192/christopher-c-miller/
https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Biography/Article/2111192/christopher-c-miller/
Also shortly after losing the election, Trump promoted several close allies to "acting" senior positions at DoD -- including making Ezra Cohen-Watnick (a former aide to Michael Flynn at DIA) acting USD for Intelligence and Security. https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/11/10/james-anderson-pentagon-policy-head-resigns/
On November 18, 2020, Miller and Cohen-Watnick personally visited Fort Bragg, where they announced that Cohen-Watnick had been elevated to "service secretary" for special operations, now reporting directly to SECDEF Miller. https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/2419853/acting-secdef-announces-osd-changes-at-fort-bragg-nc/
Here is how Acting SECDEF Miller put it (emphasis added):
One might reasonably ask why Trump took such a sudden interest in sending loyalists to assume direct control of special operations forces immediately after losing an election.
And you might be particularly interested in getting answers to that question if you find out--as we did today--that at least one active duty soldier assigned to a special operations unit at Fort Bragg led a large group of people to the site of an attack to overturn the election.
