It includes the Presidents of the National Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice ; the ministers in charge of National Defence, Government and Police, Foreign Affairs, and Economy and Finance ; the Chief of the Joint Command, and the Chiefs of the three branches of the Armed Forces.

It monitors the fulfillment of the defence policies and the strategic plans elaborated by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, submitted by the Ministry of National Defence.

It advises on national defence and is conformed by the Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Commanders of all three branches of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces: The Army, Navy and the Air Force.

Prior to that, he was the 13th Chief of Army Staff from October 1998 till November 2007, and was also the tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan Armed Forces from 1998 until 2001.

In the aftermath of the incident, President Karimov dismissed several senior military figures: Defense Minister Kadyr Gulyamov, Head of the Joint Headquarters of the Armed Forces Ismail

The law states that the armed forces will only be used against foreign aggression, and reduces the powers of the heads of the armed services, centralizing whole operational and acquisitions decisions under the authority of the Armed Forces Joint General Staff ( EMC ) emphasizing Jointness

The RAF vacated the site in 1969, and it is now the location of the British Armed Forces Permanent Joint Headquarters ( PJHQ ) for planning and controlling overseas military operations, together with the NATO Regional Command.

* Lieutenant General Nick Houghton CBE, current Chief of Joint Operations, British Armed Forces

In 1951, a now-retired Major General Chennault testified and provided written statements to the Senate Joint Committee on Armed Forces and Foreign Relations, which was investigating the causes of the fall of China in 1949 to Communist forces.

The Norwegian Armed Forces Joint Operational Headquarters are located at Reitan, east of Bodø.

* The United States Congress passes the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.

The Vice Chairman is a four-star-general or admiral and, by law, is the second highest ranking member of the U. S. Armed Forces ( after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ).

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

President George Bush, surrounded by leaders of the House and Senate, announces the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, October 2, 2002.

Committee chairman Carl Levin ( D-MI ) and former ranking member John Warner ( R-VA ) listen to Admiral Mike Mullen's confirmation hearing before the Armed Services Committee to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 31, 2007.

* Joint Service Gliding Centre-adventurous training in the form of gliding for members of the Armed Forces.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( CJCS ) is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces, and is the principal military advisor to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council and the Secretary of Defense.

While the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff outranks all other officers, he does not have operational command authority over the Armed Forces ; however, the Chairman does assist the President and the Secretary of Defense in exercising their command functions.

The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( VJCS ) is by law the second highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces ranking just below the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In terms of percentage, 53 % of all Army personnel are in the Land Forces, 25 % are in the Air Force, 13 % are in the Navy and 9 % are in the Joint Forces Command.

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The 153rd Engineer Battalion based in Olomouc was created on 15 October 2008 and is subordinated to the 15th Engineer Brigade, Joint Forces Command.

A Legion Honor guard | honour guard of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment stands at attention as they await the arrival of Lt. Gen. Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, commander of Joint Forces in Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield.

From July 1996 to July 1997 he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon ; and from November 1993 to June 1996 General Myers was Commander of U. S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

The 9th Armoured Division served as the Arab Joint Forces Command North reserve and saw little action.

Franks pointed to a study published by U. S. Joint Forces Command which, he says, showed that there was no linkage between the Fedayeen and the insurgency present in Iraq today.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

instruction on military problem solving ; classical and contemporary military theory and history ; Army and joint doctrine ; the fundamentals of operational planning ; battle dynamics ; division, corps, and Joint Task Force ( JTF ) operations ; the operational theory and practice ; air, sea and Special Operations Forces ( SOF ) operations ; contemporary military operations ; and the application of national elements of power.

: This is a subordinate, functional command of U. S. Joint Forces Command ( USJFCOM ), tasked with improving the integration, interoperability, and effectiveness of Joint fires.

The USA Water Polo National Aquatic Center is located on the US Military Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base.

The 3 ASOG provides Tactical Command and Control of air power assets to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and Joint Forces Land Component Commander for combat operations.

Camp Lemonnier is a United States Naval Expeditionary Base, situated at Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport and home to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa ( CJTF-HOA ) of the U. S. Africa Command ( USAFRICOM ).

The National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) devised detailed plans for nuclear war against China.

# REDIRECT Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems

Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems or JINTACCS is a United States military program for the development and maintenance of tactical information exchange configuration items ( CIs ) and operational procedures.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

Used by operators at the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the 614 AOC's 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week support provides vigilance of global and theater operations and equips the Joint Functional Component Command for space operations with the tools to conduct command and control of space forces.

Powell soon became Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee for India and Louis Mountbatten's South East Asia Command, involved in planning an amphibious offensive against Akyab, an island off the coast of Burma.

The Joint Space Operations Center, part of United States Strategic Command ( formerly the United States Space Command ), currently tracks more than 8, 500 objects larger than 10 cm in LEO, however a limited Arecibo Observatory study suggested there could be approximately one million objects larger than 2 millimeters, which are too small to be visible from Earth.

DISA's Command and Control acronyms include the Net-Enabled Command Capability ( NECC ), Global Combat Support System ( GCSS ), Combatant Command / Joint Task Force ( CC / JTF ), Global Command and Control System-Joint ( GCCS-J ), and Multinational Information Sharing ( MNIS ).

DISA's Joint Interoperability Test Command ( JITC ) tests and provides joint certification for the systems employed by US armed forces.

In the 1980s, DCA absorbed the Joint Tactical Command, Control, and Communications Agency, improving its ability to manage and enhance the interoperability of command, control, and communications systems.

The Joint Interoperability Test Command was formed within DCA to provide interoperability compliance testing and certification.

The city hosts NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples, the SRM Institution for Economic Research and the OPE Company and Study Centre.