Conservatives need to disabuse themselves of the misguided notion that the military are their friends or that the military will help them, or indeed the country, in any way if the need ever arises. For the time being, the US armed forces will be used to make plutocrats and profiteers even richer by blowing up countries that have never attacked or threatened us while the upper echelons of the government and Pentagon continue to purge the ranks of actual conservatives and patriots.
Not now, but in the future when they are called on to do so, the armed forces will obey any order given them including those to disarm law abiding citizens, terrorize dissidents, arrest political opponents of the elites and leftists, or otherwise bring their full force of arms against US citizens.
The police are in the same category. There may be a few who refuse orders to take people’s guns or arrest them for “hate speech” but they will be too few and ineffective to matter.