This has to be the crappiest assignment. There are more photos of Soldiers lying around and eating than doing anything, because, after all, what is there to do? They're on 24-hour guard duty shifts, probably passing the time playing dominoes and staring at their phones.

Is this just an optics play? Something the Dems can point to later and say, "Look, we had to deploy 20,000 troops to DC just to stay safe from conservative radicals?"