FORT BRAGG — If war broke out tomorrow, Fort Bragg’s representative in Congress questions whether the installation’s Immediate Response Force has all the resources it needs. The Immediate Response Forces is the nation’s rapid response force, which is comprised of paratroopers from one of the 82nd Airborne Division’s brigade combat teams and is able to rapidly deploy within 18 hours. For the first time since 1989, the response force received rapid deployment orders on New Year’s Eve 2019, following the Iran-supported Kata'ib Hezbollah militia attacks on the American embassy in Iraq. Rep. Richard Hudson, whose district includes Fort Bragg, testified before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction on May 20 about the deployment.