Privates are robots who shout YESSER!, Sergeants are PTSD ridden drunks and sadists (and usually have some type of incurable venereal disease which keeps them out of combat which is why they are sadists), junior officers are bumbling ernest dolts, and senior officers are almost always engaged in some nefarious conspiracy to something something gazpacho. And they're all just itching to overthrow democracy and probably kill a lot of people in the process because there ain't nothing the boys in uniform love more than killin' -- unless it's stealing boxes of gold from Saddam's palace. It's always the same.

Maybe this is generational and I've not seen the right movies, but other than the bit about Privates shouting "Yes sir," that's the exact opposite of how I've seen the military portrayed by Hollywood.  And everywhere, really.  Thinking of conspiratorial military episodes -- I dunno, The Rock?  And even then, it was a small unit of Bad Guys^TM who became Mercenaries^TM.

People trip over themselves -- in and outside of the media -- to glorify the military.

As he noted, Kent State was 46 years ago.  And I assume the movies he's thinking of are of a similar vintage.  What is he on about?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

I'm not worried about the military.  The military will sort that kind of behavior out real quick.  This or that soldier may be conservative or liberal, and groups just the same.  And stupid shit like that will happen, of course -- but, again, the command structure will not be pleased, and they'll spend a few days scrubbing toilets with toothbrushes (or whatever the modern equivalent is) and learn a lesson.

The FBI, CBP, ICE, etc -- the Cops Who Wear Suits agencies -- are far more worrisome than the military.  For one, because they operate domestically, of course, unlike there military (outside of natural disaster response and the like).  For another, because they're not under the same kind of structure and programmed the same way as the military.  Same with cops and sheriffs at the local level.  

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

GOP leader apologizes for tweeting: 'Time for another Kent State'

A county Republican leader in the Upper Peninsula is under fire for seeming to suggest in his social media posts there should be a Kent State type of crackdown on violent protests like the one that erupted at a university in California last week.

But in an interview Sunday with the Free Press, Dan Adamini, the secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, said he apologizes, supports peace and was merely trying to prevent further violence and hatred.

The Marquette resident said that he has received death threats and been harassed by people outraged over his remarks that refer to the 1970 shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University in Ohio by the Ohio National Guard. Nine other students were wounded in what many consider a turning point in public opinion about the Vietnam War.