Remember What the Praetorian Guard did to Caligula?

It appears that national guard troops assigned to occupy Washington, DC are convinced that they are serving no national security purpose at all.

I could have told you that.

The descriptions of troops thinking that they are, leveraging fear," creating a, "Wedge between citizens and the military," and making the troops deployed feel, "shame," is interesting.

Given the, "Warrior Ethos," ⃰ promulgated by all branches of the service, this is actually profoundly worrying.

One of the motivations for a military coup is the sense among the military that they have been shamed or demeaned.

As to what happens in the United States?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   

^*I strongly object to this training. They are not warriors, they are soldiers.
Soldiers take a town and eliminate resistance and then minimize casualties to civilians.
Warriors, on the other hand, at least in the case of the ancient Greeks, were expected to dash any male toddler's brains out on the cobblestones upon taking a town.