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Guard units won’t help with Hoover Dam security

Thursday, Sept. 27, 2001 | 10:11 a.m.

Hoover Dam Police will not receive help from 21 members of a Nevada National Guard tank unit to help with highway security near the dam, a Bureau of Reclamation official said today.

The dam's police force asked for extra guards to help check vehicles driving over the dam more than a week ago, and the tank unit had volunteered, reclamation spokesman Bob Walsh said.

"Then the Department of Defense said, 'Wait a second, we need to take a look at this' and now they are not coming," Walsh said. "I don't know the reasons."

The Nevada Army National Guard's Task Force South announced the decision Wednesday not to send the soldiers and an officer to Hoover Dam.

Under President Bush's homeland defense plan, National Guard units and reservists are being called up.

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