Troops from the South Carolina National Guard will be arriving at the nation’s capital within the next 24 hours.

Vermont's Republican Gov. Phil Scott declined a request to send his state's National Guard to Washington, D.C., to assist with President Donald Trump's controversial efforts to stop crime in the city.

The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.

In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.

It was the first such action by the Guard since its deployment in Washington.