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Rapid Deployment Force

American  

noun

  1. a U.S. military organization consisting of one Marine division and four Army divisions, established in 1979 to respond quickly to any distant threat to national interests.


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The Carter Administration has organized a so-called Rapid Deployment Force to be dispatched to troubled areas of the world, especially the Middle East.

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

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

One carried a pistol and wore the turquoise-and-black camouflage pants of the Palestinian Authority's Rapid Deployment Force.

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

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