Birth of a militia: Men in uniform
Harri Leigh
To keep the peace, they dress for war.
“If you're an average civilian walking down the street and you walk up on me and I'm carrying a battle rifle, I'm carrying seven magazines, a sidearm in military garb. Would you be scared? Damn right, you would. And sometimes that's needed,” said Christian Yingling, founder of the newly-formed Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia. “Not being scared, but not being brazen either.”
Previous to the Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, Yingling was the leader of one company of the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia.
The Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia is associated with the national Light Foot Militia, which the ACLED classifies as having a low history of and moderate potential for violence.