Joint multichannel trunking and switching system: That composite multichannel trunking and switching system formed from assets of the Services, the Defense Communications System, other available systems, and / or assets controlled by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to provide an operationally responsive, survivable communication system, preferably in a mobile / transportable / recoverable configuration, for the joint force commander in an area of operations.

For any manufacturer seeking to deviate from the MIL – STD-188 series standards ( prior to the manufacture of an item ) they must request to do so with the Joint Steering Committee ( JSC ) which is constituted under the Defense Communications Agency.

The Air Force Office of Commercial Communications Management ( now the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization ), the White House Signal Agency ( now the White House Communications Agency ), and the DoD Damage Assessment Center ( now the Joint Staff Support Center ) all became a part of DCA.

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.

In other words, the SIPRNET is the DoD ’ s classified version of the civilian Internet together with its counterpart, the Top Secret and SCI Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, JWICS.

Audrain County Joint Communications is the primary public safety answering point ( PSAP ) for Audrain County, and is responsible for handling incoming and outgoing communication from the public for assistance from law enforcement, fire, and medical personnel throughout Audrain County.

Joint Communications is specifically responsible for receiving incoming 9-1-1 emergency telephone calls, and dispatching the appropriate personnel ; receiving other non-emergency telephone calls and dispatching, routing, or messaging those calls to the correct personnel ; entering information into, and inquiring information from the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System ( MULES ) and the National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ) crime databases ; maintaining a detailed computerized log of requests received and dispatched ; and keeping current on city and county geography, so that members may assist responding personnel in locating addresses.

Joint Communications is located at 1854 East Liberty Street in Vandiver Village, and serves a coverage area of with a population of nearly 26, 000 people.

Upgrades to the communications equipment and computer software were made when Mexico Public Safety Dispatch and Audrain County Sheriff's Dispatch consolidated to form the Joint Communications Center in October 1999.

Audrain County Joint Communications and Vandalia Communications acted as backup sites for each other, so if anything happened to one center there would be no disruption of service to the residents and visitors of Audrain County.

In February 2007, Joint Communications implemented an Emergency Medical Dispatch ( EMD ) program utilizing the protocol-based Medical Priority Dispatch System created by the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch.

On February 15, 2008, Audrain County Joint Communications assumed the communications responsibilities for the Vandalia Police Department, Vandalia Fire District and Van-Far Ambulance District.

Ralls County E-911 was designated as the backup PSAP for Audrain County Joint Communications so if anything were to happen to the Joint Communications Center there would be no disruption of service to the residents and visitors of Audrain County.

In August 2008, Joint Communications Director Chris Hardin began the process of implementing Phase II wireless service to the Audrain County E-911 system.

This process was expected to take several months, but after Phase II wireless service was implemented Joint Communications would be able to locate a caller when they called 911 from a cellular telephone.

Joint Communications became Wireless Phase II with AT & T Mobility ( formerly Cingular Wireless ) on March 3, 2009 and with US Cellular on March 16, 2009.

Joint Communications became Wireless Phase II with Sprint Nextel on July 15, 2009 meaning that Joint Communications is now Wireless Phase II with all of the cellular phone providers officially serving Audrain County.

A meteorologist at the console of the IBM 7090 in the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit.

DISA has been awarded five Joint Meritorious Unit Awards and continues to offer DoD information systems support, taking data services to the forward-deployed warfighter.

* Emission Reduction Unit, a credit giver under Joint Implementation equivalent to one tonne of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > reduction

Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger presented DIA with the Agency's first Joint Meritorious Unit Award in 1986 for outstanding intelligence support over the previous year during a series of crises — the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the cruise ship Achille Lauro, unrest in the Philippines, and counter-terrorist operations against Libya.

* European Chemicals Bureau, the Toxicology and Chemical Substances Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

* Cyprus Joint Police Unit ( CJPU ) RMP / RAF Police

There is also a Joint Communications Unit ( JCU ) providing the electronic warfare and command and control systems for the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.

His decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Army Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit ( with three Oak Leaf Clusters ), Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star with " V " device, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal ( with two Oak Leaf Clusters ), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal ( with Oak Leaf Cluster ), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award ( 3rd award ).

* 60px Joint Meritorious Unit Award with two oak leaf clusters

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* Joint Communications Unit ( Falkland Islands )

During his military career, Kirk has been awarded the following medals: the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, as well as the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, the Navy Unit Commendation, and the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation.

Second Fleet ’ s main training and certification venues were the Composite Unit Training Exercise ( COMTUEX ) and Joint Training Fleet Exercise ( JTFEX ), conducted off the eastern U. S. coast from Virginia to Florida.

* 3 Platoon, Cyprus Joint Police Unit CJPU-Akrotiri

Its commander, Russel L. Honoré, a Louisiana native, became a nationally recognized figure in his direct, no-nonsense approach to disaster relief which earned First Army a Joint Meritorious Unit Award.

* 2005, First Army is awarded a Joint Meritorious Unit Award for leading federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

# Joint Meritorious Unit Award for leading the federal response to Hurricane Katrina 2005.

The only remaining jets are the BAe Hawks of 100 Squadron which provides an air combat training service as well as support to the Joint Forward Air Control Training Support Unit ( JFACTSU ).

Lodger units are the RAF Police, Joint Air Delivery Test and Evaluation Unit ( JADTEU )-A tri-service unit that tests and evaluates air transportation methods, and No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF.

On 1 September 1998 399 Signals Unit merged with the newly arrived Special Signals Support Unit from Loughborough to form the Joint Service Signal Unit ( Digby ).

Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the Falkland Islands consists of 33 Engineer Regiment ( EOD ), RAF and RLC EOD teams.

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.

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.