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Originally Posted by Locke
I am not a military man per se, but I am familiar with the concept of using the military as civilian police. It typically does not go well.
Military personnel are drilled and trained to defeat their enemy, when you make their enemy and the civilian population they're supposed to protect one and the same it usually prefaces disaster.
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It doesn't go well, Military members don't really receive training in law enforcement, they receive rules of engagement. If the rules of engagement state that there is a curfew, they will enforce the curfew.
They will make their presence felt, they are out there to intimidate, and if you go against their rules of engagement, ie rioting etc, they will deal with it in the exact way that its ordered and send in the medics after.
I remember reading a handbook on civilian enforcement that I found at a surplus store, and half of the book was about the deployment of water canons, and how to use a shield and baton.