Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Guard, a part of the U.S. armed forces, is primarily used to provide manpower for U.S. military operations abroad and ...

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to bolster his federal occupation of Washington, D.C., and create a “quick reaction force” in the National Guard that could be deployed to tamp down ...

Military leaders have ordered the National Guard in every state to develop a "quick reaction force" of troops trained to deal with civil disturbances and riots that can be ready to deploy with just ...

The U.S. military has directed National Guard units in all 50 states and both U.S. territories to create specially trained and operational “quick reaction forces” (QRFs) of up to 500 troops each by ...

The Pentagon is moving forward on orders from President Donald Trump to build a National Guard quick reaction force in each state for domestic use, though two US officials say the effort is largely ...

The Trump administration is evaluating plans that would establish a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into ...

WASHINGTON — Military leaders have ordered the National Guard in every state to develop a “quick reaction force” of troops trained to deal with civil disturbances and riots that can be ready to deploy ...