United States Joint Forces Command

United States Joint Forces Command - USJFCOM -
Emblem of the USJFCOM
active	October 1999 to August 31, 2011
Country	United States of America
Armed forces	United States Armed Forces of America
Armed forces	(all)
Type	Unified Combatant Command
Subordinate troops	( see below )
Strength	1.16 million, of which> 2,800 in the staff
Insinuation	DoD
Location	Norfolk ( Hampton Roads area), Virginia
motto	“Ready for today. Preparing for tomorrow ”
Web presence	-
Commander United States Joint Forces Command
last	General Raymond T. Odierno , USA

The United States Joint Forces Command ( USJFCOM ) was one of the Unified Combatant Commands of the US armed forces . Apart from the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), it was the only one that had both regional and functional competencies. Until October 1999 it was called Atlantic Command . The commander of JFCOM was also the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation of NATO from 2002 to 2009 . The headquarters were in Norfolk , Virginia .

JFCOM had 2,800 military and civilian employees. There were also 3,000 freelancers, some of whom came from the armaments industry , with whom the command was supposed to develop technologies for further interlinking the armed forces.

history

Atlantic Command

JFCOM was founded in 1947 as Atlantic Command under the National Defense Act . Due to this mission, especially Marines and members of the Navy were dominant as personnel. It initially had the tasks of a purely regional command and was subordinate to the US Atlantic fleet. The tasks were primarily of a defensive nature, since the main strategic enemy, the Soviet Union , did not have an overseas fleet in the Atlantic. The JFCOM was primarily responsible for securing trade routes , transporting and supplying troops, and monitoring enemy submarine activities.

The command grew in importance as more and more sea-based nuclear weapons were placed under it in the course of the 1950s . The first crisis in the command area was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961. In the mid-1970s, reserve units were assigned to the command .

Troops under the command intervened in the Dominican Republic in 1965 as part of Operation Power Pack . 27 Americans died in this operation. After the 1966 presidential election, all troops were withdrawn from the capital, Santo Domingo .

In 1997 the Caribbean was assigned to the US Southern Command as a command area .

Turn of the millennium

In 1999, the general mission of the Atlantic Command was considered obsolete, as the Soviet Union was no longer a threat. The pioneering role is reflected in the new name. In this role, JFCOM was involved in implementing the Joint Vision 2020 project.

On August 9, 2010, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the JFCOM would be dissolved within one year due to austerity constraints and that the tasks would be transferred to the Joint Staff . It was officially dissolved on August 31, 2011.

Mission and responsibility

The Joint Forces Command was tasked with monitoring possible hostile activities and protecting the sea routes in the Atlantic Ocean . It also played a key role as a think tank for the further development of the combined struggle of the armed forces.

Subordinate commands and units

The JFCOM had four component commands:

• US Army Forces Command (USFORTHCOM), Fort McPherson ( Georgia )
• US Fleet Forces Command (USFLTFORCOM), Norfolk ( Virginia )
• US Marine Corps Forces Command (MARFORCOM), Norfolk, Virginia
• Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley Air Force Base , (Virginia)

In addition, eight other departments were subordinate:

• Joint Deployment Training Center (JDTC)
• Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE)
• Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT)
• Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA)
• Joint System Integration Command (JSIC)
• Joint Warfare Analysis Command (JWAC)
• Joint Transformation Command - Intelligence (JTC-I)
• Special Operations Command-Joint Forces Command (SOCJFCOM), Norfolk, Virginia

Commander

No.	Surname	photos	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
6th	General Raymond T. Odierno ( USA )		October 29, 2010	August 31, 2011
interim	Lieutenant General Keith M. Huber (USA)		July / August 2010	October 29, 2010
5	General James N. Mattis ( USMC )		November 9, 2007	July / August 2010
4th	General Lance L. Smith ( USAF )		November 10, 2005	November 9, 2007
interim	Lieutenant General Robert W. Wagner (USA)		August 1, 2005	November 10, 2005
3	Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani ( USN )		October 2, 2002	August 1, 2005
2	General William F. Kernan (USA)		September 5, 2000	October 2, 2002
1	Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Jr. (USN)		September 24, 1997 (October 7, 1999)	September 5, 2000

The US Joint Forces Command emerged on October 7, 1999 from the US Atlantic Command established on December 1, 1947 . Last in command of the US Atlantic Command since September 24, 1997 and first in command of the US Joint Forces Command from October 7, 1999 to September 5, 2000 was Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Jr.

Web links

• Official website of the USJFCOM
• Overview on globalsecurity.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.washingtonpost.com The Washington Post . Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), Top Secret America series, nd Accessed 22 February 2011.
2. ↑ www.jfcom.mil ( Memento from October 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) DUSJFCOM Public Affairs: President nominates Army general as new deputy commander, October 15, 2009. Accessed February 22, 2011.
3. ↑ www.hamptonroads.com The Virginian-Pilot: Dangerous winds in JFCOM closures, August 10, 2010. Accessed February 22, 2011.
4. ↑ www.spiegel.de 'Drastic austerity - Pentagon cuts several thousand jobs'
5. ↑ Gates to close JFCOM, cut gen. Officer billets ( Memento of March 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (MarineCorpsTimes.com of August 10, 2010; English)
6. ↑ Website of the US Joint Forces Command ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.