JoeB131
Diamond Member
I have no reason to assume that any of the above is true.
Um, yeah, except simple logic.
Okay, again, this was back in the 1980's. It was only a decade before when you had the debacle of Kent State, where some national guardsmen fired into a crowd of student demonstrators, killing 4 students, two of whom weren't even involved in the demonstration.
Pretty much, after that, the National Guard changed a lot of the ways they handled Civil Disturbance Training. (My own opinion was, we didn't spend nearly enough time on it, only about one day of training a year). The focus was to make sure nothing like Kent State ever happened again.