The Royal Air Force's 51 squadron, the base's quick response force, crossed the runway in two heavily-armed, Coyote open-topped vehicles.
But the Nato Response Force will also act as an important catalyst for change.
S. Rajesh, an official with the National Disaster Response Force who was at the scene.
Troops of soldiers have held a parade to mark their 2013 role as NATO's response force.
The new NATO Response Force and Allied Command-Transformation in Norfolk are examples of combined allied transformation efforts.
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Mr Kavanagh said the force's response to domestic violence has improved, but there was still work to be done.
The British troops flown to Sierra Leone were part of the small rapid-response force that was thought up last year.
Gas taxes or carbon prices intended to alter behavior only work by causing financial pain to force the demand response.
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The annual exercise involves six ships, more than 20 helicopters and 3, 000 troops which make up the Response Force Task Group (RFTG).
The initial Response Force is being activated one year ahead of schedule.
His neighbour Lt Habib Amin Ilias, who was described as a rapid response force commander, had been targeted before, our correspondent says.
But since the decision to create a Response Force was taken at the Prague summit in November 2002, the military planners have moved very quickly.
Every force has armed response vehicles which can be mobilised in a matter of seconds and directed towards incidents and that has been a development in recent years.
The new Chief Constable of Essex Police, Stephen Kavanagh, said the force accepts its response to domestic abuse incidents in the past had lacked consistency and there have been organisational failings.
That puts an onus on training, military exercises, and making sure the NATO Response Force, which is meant to provide rapid-reaction forces for deployment at short notice, is up to the job.
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"We know at times queues have been too long, " a Border Force spokesman said in response.
Almost every force already has armed response vehicles, equipped and ready to attend the scene of a robbery or siege.
Jeffrey Krusinski was placed in charge of a branch of the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program, and he oversaw a five-person office, an Air Force official told CNN after the incident.
Further, on September 13, an additional security force arrived in Yemen in response to security threats there.
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There are no representatives from the National Rifle Association on the task force, Carroll said in response to a question.
An e-mail response from the Force Information Unit, shown to the court, estimated about 40, 000 police hours were spent on the inquiry.
Jeffrey Krusinski, who headed the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit, provided a rallying point for lawmakers, who held it up Tuesday as an example of the Pentagon's failure to make progress despite the increased effort.
The 36-year-old former soldier has become a driving force behind efforts to force the Army to revise its response to soldiers suffering from PTSD.
The Working Group doesn't have the authority to force a country to act in response to its opinions, but it can send a strong diplomatic and political message, Genser said.
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For the last five years Carolyn has been the driving force behind the Denver Community Emergency Response Training (Denver CERT) and the Emergency Preparedness Programs which includes a special focus on diverse populations and organizations.
Any notion of a concerted ASEAN response to the Crisis never gathered force.
Enter Vice President Bennett, a tough but sensitive woman who must orchestrate the White House response to the hijacking of Air Force One.
This point was repeatedly made in response to criticisms that the Air Force and the Defense Department had not worked out a strategy for funding the B-2 in an era of diminishing defense spending.
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The strategic rationale for swift-moving expeditionary forces, be they Army or Marines, airborne infantry or special operations, is self-evident given the likelihood of counterterrorism, rapid reaction, disaster response, or stability or security force assistance missions.
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