New York Militia Gives Inside Look at its Operation During D.C. Demonstrations

An NBC News I-Team Investigation

By Sarah Wallace

Saturday was filled with tension for members of New York's Light Foot Militia.

Nearly two dozen men and women in the militia were up at the break of dawn that day, decked out in fatigues and sipping on coffee before taking orders from commander George Curbelo and mobilizing with military precision in the National Mall in Washington D.C. 

"Staggered columns please," Curbelo barked as they headed into the giant green space. 

They didn't have weapons, but the Light Foot Militia was on hand to keep the peace and defend free speech along with the nearly 200 other militia members from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania that converged on the nation's capitol at a pro-Trump demonstration billed as the Mother of All Rallies. And they allowed the I-Team’s Sarah Wallace to be the only reporter embedded with their teams.

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