Command (military service)
Command is the designation for a command post in military formations such as the military, police or fire brigade.
Germany
armed forces
In the German Federal Armed Forces , command is the name given to various military departments that have the status of a (higher) command authority .
The higher command authorities of the armed forces and military organizational areas of the Bundeswehr are:
- Army command
- Air Force Command
- Naval command
- Bundeswehr Medical Service Command
- Command Force Base
- Command cyber and information space
In addition, the following active military agencies have the word "command" in their name:
- NBC Defense Command of the Bundeswehr
- Training command
- Command of the Bundeswehr
- Feldjäger command of the Bundeswehr
- Information technology command of the Bundeswehr
- Regional medical support command
- Medical service support command
- Command of rapid emergency medical services
- Special Forces Command
- Naval Special Forces Command
- Strategic Reconnaissance Command
- Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr
- Logistics command of the Bundeswehr
- Air Force Command
- Naval Aviation Command
- Naval Support Command
- Multinational Command Operational Leadership
- Liaison commands to foreign or multinational military agencies
Historically, the Bundeswehr had the following commands:
- Bundeswehr Command East
- German Air Force Training Command USA
- German Air Force Command Beja
- German Air Force Command USA / Canada
- German Air Force Training Area Command Beja
- Telecommunications Command Army
- Command support command
- Fleet command
- Army Command
- Army Command East
- Army command
- Army Support Command
- Homeland Security Command
- Command airmobile forces
- Command leadership operations of special forces
- Operational Leadership Command for intervention forces
- Command Operational Command Air Force
- Territorial Defense Command
- Air Fleet Command
- Air Force Training Command
- Air Force Command
- Air Force Command Service Command
- Air Force Group Commands (North and South)
- Air Force Command North and South
- Air Force Support Group Commands (North and South)
- Air Force Support Command
- Air transport command
- Naval sector commands North , North Sea , East , Baltic Sea , West
- Rostock naval command
- Naval Support Command
- Medical Command
- Armed Forces Support Command
- Air Force Tactical Training Command in Portugal
- US Air Force Tactical Training Command
- Territorial Commands
- Support commands (WHNS)
- Supply commands
- Air Force Weapons System Command
- Military area command (I-VII)
The corps troops included:
- Artillery squads
- Telecommunication commands
- Anti-aircraft commandos
- Army Aviation Commands
- Repair commands
- Resupply Squads
- Pioneer commandos
- Medical commands
Austria
Federal Army
According to its name, the Austrian Armed Forces have the Armed Forces Command , to which the land and air forces are subordinate, the operational support command, which primarily has to carry out logistical activities, and the military commands set up for each federal state .
executive
In the Federal Police in the districts which consist district police command posts and in the larger cities, the city police command posts . The previously existing state police commandos were merged with the federal police headquarters and security departments to form state police headquarters in 2012 .
Until the dissolution of the federal police in July 2005, also passed in the districts in which the gendarmerie was responsible, District Gendarmerie Commands . These were the for each state except Vienna furnished country Gendarmerie Commands and turn these to the Gendarmerie Central Command subordinate.
Multinational
The European Air Transport Command exists at the European level .