Additionally, a US quick-reaction force is always ready to provide reinforcements within minutes. Of the soldiers in the battalion, 60 percent are ROK soldiers and 40 percent are U.
Army soldiers. The latter serve as security guards or perform administrative, communications and logistics missions. For a large base, the QRF is usually a platoon or squad. The size of the QRF depends on the threat.
Obviously, the greater the threat, the bigger the QRF. The tasks assigned to the quick reaction force are not difficult. A well-trained platoon can assume the role and execute it quickly with minimal effort. Every large US unit stationed in South Korea has a quick-reaction force that stands ready to respond to armed infiltration at the perimeter. When more than military police are needed, a base QRF will be called. They can mobilize in as little as three minutes. They are trucked to within a safe distance of the perimeter and then move, dismounted, to restore order to the perimeter.
They are trained to destroy the enemy if he comes through. The QRF uses basic infantry skills. Doctrinally, the answer must be the use of a reserve. So, at the BCT and below, any counterattack force is a reserve, not striking force. This requires a great deal of flexibility with the units involved. The reason is that in a low-intensity, unconventional conflict, the purpose of the TCF is negated i. Unlike Vietnam, and potentially what might have occurred in Europe, the counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have not consisted of Level III threats in the areas constituting the base support areas.
The threats are not a conventional, mobile force, but a smaller, unconventional force. The U. These conventional forces were too powerful for NATO sustainment forces and territorial defense units in the rear areas to handle. The need arose for designated conventional forces to fight Level III threats which have significant capabilities not possessed by rear-area NATO forces. A number of innovative solutions were tried, but the biggest effect was the realization that Soviet forces, once in the rear areas, generally could be isolated and destroyed.
Rear area Level I threats do not require mobile forces to fight them. However, Level II threats may require larger, more capable responses. A mobile force with appropriate fire support designated, usually by the area commander, deals with Level II threats in the rear area.
Because of the nature of the threat and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, a relatively new organization has been designated and codified.
Like the reserve, the QRF is an uncommitted force designed to handle emergency responses for forces operating in the assigned area of operations. The QRF must be highly mobile and able to respond in enough time to prevent the enemy from decisively defeating or destroying the unit that the QRF is assisting. Figure 1 sorts the types of forces, their commitment for planning, size of forces used, the type of enemy faced, and the type of operation in which the forces are employed.
It is an attempt to classify types of forces used and planning considerations affecting their employment. What kind of force to designate and whom to call can be confusing if the units involved do not understand the doctrine along with the second and third order effects. The support requirements, the size and composition of the elements involved, and the receipt of priorities of fires and support to the units involved are especially important to unit planners and commanders.
Doctors Stantz and Venkman might rest assured that whatever force they need to use, after familiarizing themselves with the current doctrine, they will pick the correct one. These forces are likely to be those that would constitute Level I or II forces in a conventional scenario. Chychota is currently serving as an assistant professor with the Department of Tactics, U. Examples include attaching explosive ordnance disposal EOD teams to a QRF responding to bombs or similar threats, and vehicle recovery assets to a QRF expected to recover damaged trucks.
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Army Quick Reaction Force staging area at Camp Buehring , Kuwait circa In military science nomenclature, a quick reaction force QRF is an armed military unit capable of rapidly responding to developing situations, typically to assist allied units in need of such assistance.
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