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 ...
It’s not every day a U.S. president proposes a standing domestic Quick Reaction Force, 600 National Guard troops on permanent standby to swoop into any American city dealing with “civil unrest.” Trump ...
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 ...