Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches — army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard — whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.

* The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being increasingly viewed as a " white elephant " by the US military, due to its astounding price tag of some $ 380 billion for nearly 2, 500 aircraft in three differing versions, to equip nine nations ' air forces.

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.

An initial order of 48 airframes was made in 2012 to equip the air wings of the planned two Queen Elizabeth class carriers, with the operation split between the FAA and the Royal Air Force, as was the case with Joint Force Harrier.

Joint naval, air and ground exercises also have been planned and executed to increase readiness throughout the Persian Gulf.

In many ways, the Joint Strike Fighter is seen as a rebirth of the TFX project, in that it purports to satisfy the needs of three American Air arms ( as well as several foreign customers ), fulfilling the roles of strike fighter, carrier-launched fighter, V / STOL, and close air support ( and drawing many criticisms similar to those leveled against the TFX ).

The Joint Tactical Information Distribution System ( JTIDS ) is an L band TDMA network radio system used by the United States armed forces and their allies to support data communications needs, principally in the air and missile defense community.

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.

It increased the powers of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and created the concept of a truly unified joint U. S. forces ( i. e., army, air Force, marines, and navy forces organized under one command ).

Under a parallel agreement, the Joint Air Training Scheme, South Africa trained 33, 347 aircrew for the South African Air Force and other Allied air forces.

With the establishment of the Joint Air Training Scheme ( JATS ) 38 South African – based air schools would be employed to train Royal Air Force, SAAF and other allied air and ground crews.

Also, the Pacific Fleet was involved in Joint Task Force Philippines during the December 1989 coup attempt there, which involved two carrier battle groups, USS Midway and USS Enterprise-with their associated air wings operating in the Philippine Sea, chopped to JTF Philippines.

" Also, the considerable air power the Japanese had amassed in the Philippines was thought too dangerous to bypass by many high-ranking officers outside the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including Admiral Chester Nimitz.

Under the Commander Joint Forces New Zealand ( a rear admiral, air vice marshal, or major general, depending on rotation ) is the Air Component Commander, an Air Commodore.

ACC numbered air forces provide the air components to United States Central Command, United States Southern Command, United States Joint Forces Command, United States Northern Command and United States Strategic Command.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is assisted by the Director of the Joint Staff, a three-star officer who assists the Chairman with the management of the Joint Staff, an organization composed of approximately equal numbers of officers contributed by the Army, the Navy and Marine Corps, and the Air Force, who have been assigned to assist the Chairman in providing to the Secretary of Defense unified strategic direction, operation, and integration of the combatant land, naval, and air forces.

By the end of August, the Joint Chiefs had drawn up a list of 94 targets to be destroyed as part of a coordinated eight-week air campaign against North Vietnam's transportation network.

* AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon air to surface missile

During this period she provided air power presence and airborne intelligence support ( the airwing flew over 900 sorties over Iraq ) to the Combined Joint Task Forces of Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Northern Watch enforcing the northern " no-fly zone " in Iraq.

King and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff favored blockading Japanese forces in the Philippines and attacking Formosa ( Taiwan ) to give the Americans and Australians control of the sea routes between Japan and southern Asia.

He was Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government June 1961 – July 1962 ; Minister of State, Home Office July 1962 – October 1963 ; First Lord of the Admiralty October 1963 – April 1964 ; Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy April-October 1964 ; delegate to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union ( WEU ) 1965-1967 ; president of the National Federation of Housing Societies 1965-1970 ; a governor of the Centre for Environmental Studies 1967-1970 ; chairman of the British Advisory Committee on Oil Pollution at Sea 1968 ; chairman of the third International Conference on oil pollution of the sea 1968 ; an hon.

The program used the drillship Joides Resolution ( JOIDES = Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling ) on 110 expeditions ( Legs ) to collect about 2000 deep sea cores from major geological features located in the ocean basins of the world.

The unit also provides the UK ’ s tactical control facility for the combat training of air defence, ground attack and air-to-air refuelling aircraft and participates daily in Joint training with the Royal Navy, exchanging air picture information by both digital data link and voice nets with ships at sea.

Similarly, Marine Corps NFOs are considered also eligible for command at sea and ashore within Marine Aviation, and are also eligible to hold senior general officer positions, such as command of Marine Aircraft Wings, Joint Task Forces, Marine Expeditionary Forces, Marine Corps component command and unified combatant commands.

The Chief of Naval Staff ( CNS ), a four-star Admiral, is a most senior and high-ranking member officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee as well as the National Security Council ( NSC ) and the Nuclear Command Authority, and is responsible for the sea defense of the country.

In a meeting attended by the President, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, Bissell outlined the proposed " Operation Trinidad ", with an invasion force storming the beaches of Trinidad, Cuba by sea and by air.

The Joint Police / Customs Anti-Smuggling Task Force is dedicated to combating smuggling activities by sea.

Part of the agreement was for a Joint Political Military Group ( JPMG ) as a high-level planning forum to discuss and implement combined planning, joint exercises, and logistics.

This agreement led to the establishment of the Joint Political Military Group, which has since met regularly to " address " foreign military sales to Israel, joint exercises and simulations, and logistical arrangements.

The Secretary of Defense by statute also exercises " authority, direction and control " over the three Secretaries of the military departments ( Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Air Force ), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Chief of Staff, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Chief of Naval Operations, and Air Force Chief of Staff ), the Combatant Commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands, the Directors of the Defense Agencies ( for example the Director of the National Security Agency ) and of the DoD Field Activities.

The President of the United States is the commander in chief, and exercises the authority through the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which supervises combat operations.

enforcement, Maritime Interdiction Operations, direct support to NATO combined and Joint operations and exercises, Counter-terrorism operations, Counter-piracy operations, Africa Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership operations, whole of government Africa Partnership Station deployments and Theater Security Cooperation activities both inport and underway.

In times of crisis and during certain exercises, Second Fleet became the Commander, Joint Task Force 120.

Coupled with Joint / Combined training exercises Cobra Gold in Thailand, Kangaroo in Australia and Orient Shield in Japan, the division's demanding exercise schedule significantly increased the division's fighting capabilities.

Joint NCAGS exercises, such as TRANSOCEANIC, TRANSAMERICA and COAMAS are also routinely held, in order to develop a common operational doctrine.

Joint training exercises have involved units from British TA SAS, France's 13e RDP, Belgium's ESR, Italy's 9th Parachute Assault Regiment and Germany's FSLK200.

Joint exercises of the Ukrainian Navy and the ( Russian ) Black Sea Fleet may be resumed after a seven-year interval in June 2010.

During 1995, USTRANSCOM supported 76 humanitarian missions and 94 Joint Chiefs of Staff exercises, visiting approximately 80 percent of the 192 countries.

Joint exercises of the Ukrainian Navy and the Russian Black Sea Fleet where resumed after a seven-year interval in 2010.

USSOUTHCOM exercises its COCOM authority through the commanders of its components, Joint Task Forces / Joint Interagency Task Force, and Security Cooperation Organizations.

* Joint French-Malagasy military exercises in Tolagnaro.

* Joint US-Algerian naval exercises, codenamed " Barbary Thunder ", involving such vessels as the USS Nashville.

“ This version of the NetOps CONOPS documents the lessons learned by Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations and the NetOps community through operations, exercises, and other events.

The Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC ) is a component command of the United States Special Operations Command ( USSOCOM ) and is charged to study special operations requirements and techniques to ensure interoperability and equipment standardization, plan and conduct special operations exercises and training, and develop Joint Special Operations Tactics.

* Plan and coordinate BMDS objectives for Joint and COCOM exercises, wargames and experiments.

Joint intelligence exercises were followed up with trappings and summarily execution of the main members of THC and high profile trials of the leadership.