The 700 Marines mobilized to the Los Angeles area on Monday have not yet completed pre-mission training as of Wednesday morning, with no clear picture yet as to whether they will be deployed on the ground, a U.S. Northern Command official confirmed to The Hill.

The Marines “are still conducting pre-mission training and they have not been employed by Task Force 51, the DoD command element in Los Angeles,” a Northcom spokesperson said in a statement. “I do not have an estimate of when they will be employed.”

The training includes standing rules for the use of force and the use of nonlethal weapons.

The spokesperson added that no other active-duty Marines have been deployed to other locations and cities at this time.

Like the 4,000 California National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles to quell largely peaceful protests against the Trump administration’s immigration raids, “these Marines........

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