It depends on what intel there might be that, it’s certainly possible, Antifa has been spotted wearing other “uniforms” and helping #FakeNews staging events like the “arrest” of CNN “reporter” Jiminez to help get the riots going (totally staged in conjunction with “State Patrol” literally acting things out) ... if Antifa & #FakeNews were already to “present” some narrative involving national guard wearing helmets and allegedly shooting BLM ... then a disaster may have been averted. IDK + TBD ;)
If anything like that were actually the case, I think another identifying mark would be safer than ordering men to go without head protection in the midst of dangerous projectiles thrown by mobs of crazy people.