It is a role the marines could play as part of the mobile "rapid response force" deployed to protect the camps from any Iraqi attacks.

Ei- ther Lovyyev was up to the task of holding off the response forces, or they would die.

And I'd want spots far enough apart that we couldn't respond by establishing a local response force at some central node.

The National Guard is America's primary first response force.

A separate European Union force of about 400 soldiers is due here before the vote to act as a rapid response force.

During the early years of the 20th century, the Corps was widely viewed as the nation's overseas police and initial response force.

The proper role for the Mobile Infantry is as a ready response force.

During the war, the state had also created the Home Guard units in order to provide the governor with a response force for state emergencies.

This made the Guard into a rapid response force.

But the centerpiece of the session was the proposal for a rapid response force to move quickly outside Europe to tackle new threats from terrorism.