Re: '...insure domestic tranquility...'
In the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Why don't you ask the soldiers at the armory why they're being "farcical"? Or is it just safer to whisper it here?
The National Guard does what it can, when it can. Work is regulated, and sometimes there are not enough supplied on-hand to seal a base from access. That might be why there are military police and soldiers present.
Dan