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 ...

The Pentagon is ordering National Guard "Quick Reaction Force" teams to be trained to respond to civil unrest across the country and ready to deploy by the start of next year, according a memo ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

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 ...