National Guard in Each State Is Ordered to Create 'Quick Reaction Forces' Trained in Civil Unrest

Sebastian Ujică

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 with just hours' notice, the latest indication of longer-term Trump administration plans to more readily dispatch soldiers to U.S. streets. A set of memos circulated this month directs Guard units in all 50 states and U.S. territories, except for the District of Columbia , to train a contingent of