As for where, there are only so many urban training facilities to go around and the National Guard is a very low priority. I believe the unit in question was simply trying to train their troops. I don't think they thought about how it would look and be misconstrued. They should have but didn't hence canceled. I didn't have to worry about "blowing capital" to paraphrase because we had the facilities for training. I don't believe the National Guard do or at least enough of them. Any NG soldiers please correct me if I'm wrong. I was not trying to defend their CONOP as a good idea per se. But I don't believe it was training in America for America, simply training. They are training for LEO ops because the are performing LEO ops. They train here to fight there. Now on to the WWII debacle. We do not train like we did for WWII beacause we are not fighting WWII. We train for urban warfare differently because of the lessons those other conflicts taught us. Those that faught in WWII did it quite abit differently than those of WWI. That does have a historical precedent. Now the NGs have been used to disarm civilians before it was an extreme circumstance, unfortunate and wrong. If that "next step" does come about and I truly fear it might, see you in the resistance.