State Dept. Creating Private 'Quick Reaction Force'

The U.S. State Dept. intends to create a on-call soldier-for-hire team capable of swiftly locating, seizing, and destroying weapons on behalf of the U.S. government, The Peacock Report has discovered. A Quick Reaction Force, or QRF, capability would enable State to deploy private military contractors, on an as-needed basis, to conflict zones across the globe, according to a departmental sources-sought document dated March 3. Such a group of "weapons removal and abatement" (WRA) experts would be tasked with removing landmines as well as conventional weapons, the document said.

In short, the QRF must be:

capable of deploying world wide to implement conventional weapons destruction and mitigation solutions that minimize or eliminate the threat posed by conventional weapons and/or explosive hazards to civilian populations, protect victims of conflict, and restore access to land and infrastructures.

It should be noted that State only provided a five-day window of opportunity for vendors to submit "capability statements" if they wished to be considered for potential contracts. No further information is available.