Watching the 60 Minutes segment on the Oath Keepers and it occurs to me that, while we have breakdowns of Jan 6 rioters veteran status and patchy numbers on service background, we don’t know a lot about MOS. Specifically infantry vs not infantry.
Lots of references to why the Oath Keepers and other militia recruit veterans for tactical experience but it’d be nice to know if that’s actually born out by the data instead of just assumed.
“Are these people falling back on and passing along firsthand combat experience or are they trying to get it” seems like an important question from a recruitment & radicalization POV.
(Fwiw Rhodes himself was 11B1P but AFAIK didn’t deploy because his back injury occurred too early in his career)
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