Assistant: patrol that I do not harass in Baghdad. It was in the Jekfhone Ring

I understand the gunmen sight. In the case, in the case, in Sudad – on the streets – where the fear is redeemed and peace was delicate. I never expected to see it together in our capital.

Traveling from my house in the northeast, which merit troop troops in the northeast, in the stations, in stations, several couple of national maintenance soldiers in stations. Some roads. Had a person and together with a perceived mess. I stopped, he showed my military id and talked to him. We briefly talked about any uniform that is professional, about how the army strength is to be judged but how it is in relation to it.

I remembered him that most important weapon has a soldier in the city like it is not on his hip – it’s trusting people around him. He made him strongly, but I was wondering I was sticky when the Criminal Preserves It was to put the youth and women in the roles they were never trained for it.

Is not in the remote corner of the Washington Washington. It is the center that has been corrected with the embassies, tanks, coffee shops, book stores and crowded. At any time, you will discuss the politics on the students, in the park that collect diplominan to the meeting that neighborhood. This is the four way of international ideas and the life of local communities. There is available to patrol armed soldiers who can be forced to be placed in place of talk, exchange and civic confidence in place.

I was shot dead in Iraq, the caravan through government states passes in the Middle East Operations. Through all this, what I baseless people in these places is the dignity of trust and civilian people who can prevent a bad stability. I never expected to feel the same fear, for me, but for our society, during the DC Meetro.

This Sunday, I have retired as a great stronger of an order. Wearing a uniform in the nearly three decades, I have never given the government punishment weapon in the state. Even the users between the facility was organized regularly. Not check the civilians what I saw last week that was not the same with the disciplined article I know.

It should be unaware of us.

While they do not doubt are proud countries to the guards, they are not destiny. Most trained for the homework of the home, not trained for unexpected facts of large city. On the DC, like most large cities, you are not just facing passengers. You face people in the crisis – homeless, inactive violence. Local may take their eyes or walk around. But what happens when the Crisis Crisis Person with a 5-year-old child with a 5-year-old child with a 5-year-old child deducted on his heating and degradation?

The risk is not open. Police officers are trained for the conditions because they faced them every day. A homeless man in front of one’s face. A woman failed to fail an order. One soldier is out of the depth, all but make sure that the moment wrong and reaching his arms. Light is an escape, and trust between people and the military burn.

I don’t have the root or commitment of these guards. I have fought on the battle of them and know their attention. But I also know their restrictions. Ask them from the police from the police is unfair – and to the people who should serve.

That’s not what was the guard made. The task provides and provides logistical support and the result of the civilian support and civilian officials. Not serving as a armed branch of city. Still that’s how they are placed in the capital of the nation, because they were in the middle of the summer.

Weapon Views of Weaponing Mark Weaponment, After Coffee, checkpoints from the country’s second largest city from the second largest city from the capital of the nation. What was unusual once were unusually treated as usual.

It should all worry all.

The vision of soldiers with weapons and Los Angeles Roads should feel a gesture. Because once we accept it as a normal, we are always fighting always – fighting this idea – is a gun.

I saw that what it looks at the outside that communities are not collapsing by night. They slowly stone, when the citizen has once performed the duties for police or community leaders. When people realized, trust was gone.

It’s not the United States. We have to be.

For 28 years, I wore uniformly uniform. I hired me several times and lead to the soldier in the war and our service means a little bit of life, but in freedom. As I remove a uniform for the last time, my biggest concern is that by replacing impossible stuff, our democracy mixed with us.

Powder ciga is true. And the pests are already here.

Order sergeant. Accused. Eric Timestone is a USC campus single professor in Washington where he is teaching the social analysis. He served as a military leader participant in the White House.