Category: Recipients of the Joint Service Commendation Medal

Normally, such responsibilities deserving of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal are held by the most senior officers such as the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chiefs and Vice Chiefs of the Services, and Commanders and Deputy Commanders of the Combatant Commands, the Director of the Joint Staff etc., whose duties bring them frequently into direct contact with the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and other senior government officials.

The groups operates the Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operations Center.

The JTLS ( Joint Technical Language Service ) is a small department and cross-government resource responsible for mainly technical language support and translation and interpreting services across government departments.

The Joint Technical Language Service ( JTLS ) was established in 1955, drawing on members of the small Ministry of Defence technical language team and others, initially to provide standard English translations for organisational expressions in any foreign language, discover the correct English equivalents of technical terms in foreign languages and discover the correct expansions of abbreviations in any language.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

The three Service Chiefs together with the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee form the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.

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.

Joint Communications's dispatchers are trained to provide real-time instruction of CPR and other life-saving first aid while simultaneously dispatching Emergency Medical Service ( EMS ) professionals to the emergency.

Thames House is shared with the Northern Ireland Office and is also home to the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a subordinate organisation to the Security Service.

The Goldwater-Nichols DOD Reorganization Act was crafted partly to force military officers to serve in a Joint Services assignment in order to qualify for flag rank — ensuring the future of case officers from each Service.

The last of the Commendation Medals is the Joint Service Commendation Medal, which was created in 1963.

* US Army Institute of Heraldry: Joint Service Commendation Medal

: USJFCOM established JFIIT in February 2005 to provide assistance to Joint force commanders and Service headquarters in planning, coordinating, and executing Joint fires at the tactical level.

The Joint Service SPO was co-located with Ellingson's development group at MITRE.

Madeira is served by its own Police Department, while Fire Service is provided by the Madeira-Indian Hill Joint Fire District.

In 1951, the Navy was assigned Joint Service responsibilities for EOD research and development, and training.

As a result, the Navy took on the responsibility for training all Joint Service EOD operators ( Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force ) and for the development EOD technologies in support of the Joint Service EOD Community.

Subsequently, NAVEODFAC was redesignated as a fourth echelon field activity under the Naval Sea Sytstems Command ( NAVSEA ) and asked to provide EOD research and development in carrying out the Secretary of the Navy's responsibility for meeting Joint Service EOD technology requirements as defined by the Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal Program Board.

* Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization

In December 2007, he left his previous position as the director of the U. S. Department of Defense's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization ( JIEDDO ).

* Official Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization web site

Two years later, the Army Bomb Disposal School would close, making Indian Head the sole Joint Service EOD School in the U. S. at the time, though currently NAVSCOLEOD has relocated to Eglin AFB FL.

Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1981 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1985 ; Award of Excellence, by the Triangle J Council of Governments, in 1985 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Research Triangle Group of the Sierra Club, in 1986 ; Service Award, by the Orange-Chatham Alliance for the Mentally Ill ; Triangle Conservation Award, by the Triangle Land Conservancy, in 1987 ; Consumer Advocate of the Year, by the North Carolina Consumers Council, in 1987 ; Honorary Citizenship of the City of Raleigh, by Mayor Avery Upchurch, in 1987, for efforts in the passage of the phosphate detergent limitation ; Resolution of Appreciation, by the Governor's Crime Commission, in 1987 ; Service Award, by the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action, Inc. Board of Directors, in 1988 ; Service Award, by the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club, in 1988 ; Legislative Award, by the North Carolina Chapter, American Planning Association, in 1989 ; Legislative Award, by the N. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the N. C. Pediatric Society, in 1989 ; Appreciation Award, by the Chatham County Advisory Council of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, in 1990 ; " Best Bets For 1990 ", by the Center For Policy Alternatives, Sustainable Growth Program, in 1990, " For Leadership in Reducing Environmental Hazards by Sponsoring Legislation to Establish Free Disposal Sites for Used Tires "; Service Award, by the Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference, in 1991, " In Appreciation For His Outstanding Leadership As Chairman .... 1989-1991 "; Recycling Merit Award, by the North Carolina Recycling Association in 1991 ; Appreciation Award, by the North Carolina Property Mappers Association, in 1993 ; Jake Alexander Public Service Award, by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Driving Drunk, and the Governor's Highway Safety Program, in 1993 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1996 ; Legislator of the Year, by North Carolina Citizen Action, for " your years of outstanding leadership and dedication to the fair protection of North Carolina families, workers and environment ", in 1996 ; Certificate of Commendation, by the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, for " persistence and legislative commitment to improving mental health in North Carolina ", in 1997 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1998 ; Friend of Education Award, by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educators, in 1999 ; Public Service Award, by the Child Care Services Association, for " outstanding advocacy and service on behalf of young children and their families ", in 2003.

The Joint Communications Unit Falkland Islands ( JCUFI ) provides the electronic warfare and command and control systems for the Royal Navy, Army and RAF stationed there.

33 Engineer Regiment ( EOD ) provides constant support and is part of the Joint Service Falkland Islands Detachment which consists of RAF and RLC EOD teams.

* Joint Communications Unit ( Falkland Islands )

The Ecuadorian territory is divided into five " Joint Task Force Zones " or Fuerzas de Tarea Conjunta, four on mainland Ecuador, the fifth being the Naval-zone ( including the Galapagos Islands ).

In the case of the Cook Islands and Niue, the details of their free association arrangement are contained in several documents, such as their respective constitutions, the 1983 Exchange of Letters between the governments of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, and the 2001 Joint Centenary Declaration.

ADGs and GRDEFOs deployed to Henderson Field, Honiara as part of the RAAF component of Joint Task Force 635 on Operation Anode, the ADF contribution to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands ( RAMSI ).

* Joint submission by France and South Africa-in the area of the Crozet Archipelago and the Prince Edward Islands ( 6 May 2009 )

* Some Joint Industrial Councils defined the South Midlands as Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands, most of which would not usually be considered part of the area.

On July 20, 1943 the Joint Chiefs directed Admiral Chester Nimitz to prepare plans for an offensive operation in the Gilbert Islands.

He was among the staff which planned a successful " attack " on Pearl Harbor during the Joint Army-Navy Exercise No. 4 in the Hawaiian Islands in February 1932 — an operation which was to be duplicated on a larger scale by the Japanese in December 1941.

In June 1943 the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet ( CINCPAC ), to submit a plan to occupy the Marshall Islands.

General Arnold approved the plan on October 12 and presented it to the U. S. Joint Chiefs after convincing President Roosevelt, through Gen. George C. Marshall as an intermediary, that no other strategic bombing of Japan was possible until the capture of the Mariana Islands, which was not yet scheduled.

Instead, on the initiative of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, a plan known as Operation Cartwheel was developed, which proposed to envelop and cut off Rabaul without capturing it, by simultaneous offensives in the Territory of New Guinea and northwards through the Solomon Islands.

In 1975 during the Joint Services Expedition to Danger Island ( JSDI ), the expedition members were taken by RFA Resurgent to Eagle Islands and then by ketch and inflatable craft to Danger Island and onward to Three Brothers.

In 1972 – 73 there was an underwater expedition to the Egmont Islands by the Joint Services ( JSEI ).

During 1995, the 62 AW deployed personnel and aircraft to the U. S. Virgin Islands following Hurricane Marilyn and to Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Endeavor.

Decatur General is accredited by the Joint Commission and its medical staff consists of more than 200 physicians representing 20 specialties.

The composition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is defined by statute and consists of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( CJCS ), Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( VCJCS ), and the Military Service Chiefs from

Public education for the city and the surrounding area, including the communities of Cascade and Parnell is provided by the Plymouth Joint School District, which consists of the following schools ;

Caltrain is governed by the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board ( PCJPB ), which consists of three member agencies from the three counties in which Caltrain line serves.

The military part of the federal defense force consists of Army ( Heer ), Navy ( Marine ), Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Joint Support Service ( Streitkräftebasis ), and Central Medical Services ( Zentraler Sanitätsdienst ) branches.

The regiment consists of four " operations " battalions: the 1st and 2nd at Fort Campbell, the 3rd at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, and the 4th at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall ( JBMHH ) and consists of military installations at Fort Myer, Virginia, Crystal City, The Pentagon, Fort McNair, the District of Columbia, and Henderson Hall – Headquarters Marine Corps, Virginia.

An example of a joint committee is the Joint Committee on Conduct of Foreign War which consists of Senate and House of Representatives members.

The Co-ordination Council consists of the Convenors / Joint Convenors of the ABCs.

The Ayrshire Coast Line consists of lines that were formerly part of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, the Ardrossan Railway and its Largs Branch extension.

) The Bundeswehr consists of the Heer ( Army ), Luftwaffe ( Air Force ) and Marine ( Navy ), as well as ( since the late 1990s ) the Streitkräftebasis ( Joint Service Support Command ) and Zentraler Sanitätsdienst ( Central Medical Service ).

The Joint Senate consists of the Presidents of the five Federal Supreme Courts ( excluding the Bundesverfassungsgericht ) and two members of each of the senates involved (" Senate " denotes a judicial ' sub-unit ' within a court, usually consisting of three or more judges.

The regiment consists of a Joint Air Defense Center, a Staff battery, 11 Air Defense battery, 13 Air Defense battery, an instruction & training battery and the Joint Air Defense School.

Accordingly, the NRF command and control structure consists of a Combined Joint Task Force Headquarters ( CJTF HQ ) with subordinated Land, Air and Maritime Component Commands ( LCC / ACC / MCC ).

The Diocese of Tunsberg consists of a number of registered Joint Parish Councils.

It was recorded in January 2002 in The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, and consists of Aerosmith classics and more recent songs performed live.

It usually consists of an Joint Terminal Attack Controller ( JTAC ), and a ROMAD ( Recon Observe Mark And Destroy ).

JTF-B consists of Medical Element-Military Hospital, Army Forces, Air Force Forces, Joint Security Forces, and the 1st Battalion-228th Aviation Regiment ( consisting of some 18 aircraft, a mix of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and CH-47 Chinook helicopters ).

The American contingent at Soto Cano Air Base is designated Joint Task Force-Bravo and consists of both U. S. military personnel and Honduran civilians.

Joint Security Forces consists of Air Force and Army force protection personnel who patrol the base and provide gate guard duty alongside their Honduran counterparts.