Nope. White are real people, too. You respawn white back at the beginning (i think you have the option to, so you could stay red as well) if you managed to find all the glyphs. Ive been the White Traveler lots of times.

Not the full military, per say- National Guard is controlled by each State’s Governor, but can still be called on and used on the Federal level. This was a State level issue. Not always for “defensive” issues either, usually humanitarian, etc.

I’m not advocating one way or another on the WHY they are there, just pointing out that those armored vehicles are NOT police.

National Guard, not police. They got called in many times during any of the various disputes that happened up there.