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U.S. Army troops now on call for domestic emergencies.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
According to the Army Times, beginning on October 1 the 3rd Infantry's 1st Brigade Combat Team, which has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq, will for the next 12 months serve at home "as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks" within the United States.
The brigade, based out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, is training for a variety of Homeland Security tasks. "They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a ...
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