Overview

• Internal Pentagon documents propose a 600-troop “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” split between bases in Alabama and Arizona to cover regions east and west of the Mississippi River.
• Units would deploy initial waves of 100 soldiers within one hour, carry military-style weapons and riot gear, and rotate out after 90-day cycles to limit burnout.
• The proposal remains pre-decisional and unfunded, with the Department of Defense declining to comment and formal budget approval required before any troop stationing.
• Plans call for operating under Title 32 authority to grant the force expanded domestic policing powers, raising questions under the Posse Comitatus Act.
• Civil-liberties advocates, state officials and federal judges have objected to the move as an institutionalization of military involvement in civilian law enforcement and have launched oversight and legal challenges.