I was in the Army at the time and watched a Kitty Hawk protest in downtown Tacoma.
Rereading my post it sounded like I was saying the Marine was on the Kitty Hawk, I was using the Kitty Hawk incident as an example or a marker for a period, an era.
I did not take your comment personally.
I have, since 1972, been taking every opportunity presented to me to quash the Kitty Hawk “race riot” image presented by the MSM and Navy PR.
The era was marked by LBJ agreeing to allow young men and women to enlist in the military who were not high school graduates and could not pass the ASVAB with a high enough score to qualify for a “regular” enlistment; i.e., they were not very smart, nor were they socialized to “normal” society. Many of them were drug users. Many of them were thugs. It was woke DEI before there was woke DEI.
And, LBJ’s experiment damn near ruined the US Military!
All anyone needs to know is that a small group (IIRC, 27 court martials resulted) of black thugs decided to beat up on individual white sailors using tiedown chains and door wrenches. It is a wonder that no one died!
In respect of any US protests as a result of the publicity surrounding the incident, we know how that works! I was still in Kitty Hawk when the merry band of racist provocateurs were “demonstrating.” It was a tale told by idiots! They had no idea what happened in Kitty Hawk, and probably wouldn’t have cared.