US Army Contingency Expeditionary Force. How did I miss this?

I did a semi-post on a photo put out by the 25th Infantry Division highlighting a Contingency Response Force exercise that they were carrying out.  The pic showed a Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle being loaded onto a C-17.

I was flabbergasted.  Really?  Seriously?  The US Army has a CRF?  A reader named Constitutional Insurgent (Dude, you need to be careful with that name!  I like it but it could seriously cause trouble in this day and age!) pointed me in the right direction when he made this comment....

Each Combatant Command has contingency response forces with tiered authorities for initiation; for PACOM this includes elements tasked for the Global Response Force, Army Contingency Response Force and Homeland Defense Support [all Army heavy, primarily 2nd and 25th ID]; this is in addition to the FAST, Alert Contingency MAGTF and the CRF/CRE.
25th has worked it's Strykers into Pacific Pathways, so I'm not surprised that they're part of an alert package.

Ok.  One of my readers says that this is more than HQ Army bullshit so time to dig.

What I found surprised the hell outta me.  Check this out from FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command)...

Contingency Expeditionary Forces units will be identified within 90 days of returning from theater, according to the white paper. They will go through the same ARFORGEN reset and training cycles as units going back to Afghanistan, but their missions will be elsewhere. The CEF units will perform such missions as:
-- homeland defense and civil support
-- overseas exercises
-- institutional support
-- theater security cooperation events
-- global response

How did I miss this?

I had focused on the 82nd Airborne and other independent Airborne Brigades re-establishing their roles in the "Global Response Force" and watched with a bit of interest as we saw units fly from Alaska and jumping in Australia...as the 173rd did "emergency activation exercise" in Europe.  But totally missed a bigger and perhaps more important development.

The US Army is actually trying to get into the "expeditionary" game.  

My take.  They're taking baby steps with this (ISIS and Afghanistan being a basket case probably isn't helping) and they probably aren't looking to step on Marine Corps toes, as much as Marines jab at the Army they're really good about roles and missions, in the desire to maintain much improved cooperation among US land forces.

Still the USMC should be mindful.

Regionally aligned forces?  Global Response Forces?  Contingency Expeditionary Forces?  The US Army is attempting to become a one stop shop for Combatant Commanders.