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Lawmakers hear adjutant general candidates as Vermont election nears
Summary
Joint legislative committees questioned two senior Vermont National Guard officers on readiness, recruitment, mental-health programs and responses to potentially unlawful orders ahead of the adjutant general election set for Feb. 19, 2026.
Senators and representatives from the Senate Government Operations Committee and the House Government Operations & Military Affairs committee convened a joint session to hear two candidates for Vermont's adjutant general and to review the office's duties ahead of the legislature's Feb. 19, 2026 election.
Sophie Sedatny, legislative counsel, opened with a primer on the National Guard's history and its dual mission: serving both state and federal authorities. She described three duty statuses — state active duty, Title 32 (state control with federal funding) and Title 10 (full federalization) — and noted the legal and practical limits on domestic law-enforcement roles when units are federally activated.
Representative Tom Stevens, who has…
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