growing number of disgruntled soldiers at Ft. Riley offered extremist ideologues a chance to expand their ranks. The “Commander” of the Kansas Citizen Militia agreed, admitting his group specifically recruited military personnel, explaining “these young men go into the military for all the right reasons, to protect the country, but they are watching themselves being turned into policemen for the wealthy interests of the few. They know it. We know it. That’s why they are coming to us.”
