If anyone remembers Kent State, I was a military policeman at the time. Shortly after Kent State, the brass was worried about a protest at one of our sites. They took about a 100 or so of us and put us on standby to deploy as back ups if necessary. The issued us M-16's and NO AMMO and told us none would be issued. They didn't want another Kent State, but if something would have happened, there was no way to protect ourselves. Luckily, we were not deployed, but that was a potential disaster waiting to happen.