Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Hundreds of National Guard troops might be stationed in two states and serve as a quick reaction force that could respond to riots and other civil unrest in U.S. cities.
Pentagon officials have created preliminary plans that would place 300 National Guard troops at a base in Arizona and another 300 at a base in Alabama, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Each would serve as a "Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force" to quell violence during protests, riots and other forms of civil unrest, according to Pentagon documents that The Washington Post reviewed.
The units would be capable of deploying within an hour, with Arizona troops responding to unrest in locations west of the Mississippi River and the Alabama troops to locations east of the river.
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