rapid deployment force
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For two years after the Rapid Deployment Force was created, the official Arabic translation of the name could have been understood to mean "rapid intervention force."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is to end these shortages that the Administration, after several years of delay, has asked Congress to move quickly to appropriate some $10 billion over the next five years for a Rapid Deployment Force.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established by President Carter last March cannot begin to deploy rapidly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the new Rapid Deployment Force has become bogged down with such weapons as the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have created a Rapid Deployment Force which can move quickly to the Gulf—or indeed any other area of the world where outside aggression threatens.
From State of the Union Address by Carter, Jimmy
