User blog comment:Nicola Polito/Mass Effect 3:Desperate Survival DLC/@comment-4826433-20120414220139/@comment-4644196-20120419121520

Well, after you complete the Tuchanka mission, and you talk with Anderson, he tells you that the majority of the Resistance had never held a gun in their life, but were still fighting. And considering they haven't been killed yet, I can guess that civilians CAN fight after all!