CSPAN2 Book TV December 23, 2012
Riot, quell the riot. I was not aware of where we were going because the county administration had put a clamp on disclosure. Not until we got to memphis were we aware of our mission. It was such a delicate, uncomfortable effort by our military, and as i often times say, it was an army out of place. It was not our mission. Military police sometimes had the mission to put down domestic disturbances, but they occurred once every hundred years or something to that effect. Clearly not the mission of the marine corps who were present that morning. 19,000 troops. Two units had been given advance not...