Don't get me wrong, they signed up to ooh-rah bomb brown people. But it hits a little different when, statistically, a portion of them are literally from these cities. There's an insular camaraderie in the military and they're pulled from a diverse background by design. You can't just drop a battalion on a city and expect them to behave themselves like a Texas National Guard in Oregon.

I'm also not claiming this is a good thing. A military junta doesn't make for kind and benevolent rulers, but wouldn't be bad in the same ways as the current administration.