One Year After Jan. 6 Attack, Push For Quick Reaction Force Is Dead On Capitol Hill Experts also warn changes at DoD won’t speed up how quickly Guardsmen could respond to future incidents.

Other officials said the quick-reaction force is expected to go ashore as soon as an additional battalion of Nigerian peacekeepers arrives in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, near the end of this week.

Creating a new quick-reaction force in the National Guard is a bad idea. Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold L. Punaro is a former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The quick reaction force, which was designed to help the U.S. advise-and-assist team if they ran into trouble, then sprang into action after the advisers were drawn into a gunfight with ISIS forces.

In interviews, Rhodes has said that the national Oath Keepers organization never did muster a quick reaction force for Jan. 6, and that some members and their associates went off mission.

As part of the Contingency Operating Base Defense Operations Cell, the Soldiers of the 277th Aviation Support Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade's Quick Reaction Force are responsible for the ...

Q-West quick reaction force stays sharp on patrol By Capt. Murray Shugars, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms December 23, 2009 ...

Infantry from the Army's 10th Mountain Division have crossed from Uzbekistan into northern Afghanistan to serve as a quick-reaction force in case of renewed Taliban resistance around the city of ...

The 'Quick Reaction Force' was one person," Fischer said. "The whole discussion about a 'Quick Reaction Force' boils down to a bunch of ex-military guys trying to out-plan one another," he added.

“A quick reaction force with a lead foot, they could’ve been in the Capitol building in less than 10 minutes.” A year ago, Westcott reached out to the FBI.

Last March, the Capitol Security Review Task Force recommended that Congress establish a quick reaction force within the D.C. National Guard to respond to crises at the Capitol. That followed the ...