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Laura Jane Richardson [1] (née Strickland; born 11 December 1963) [1] [2] is a active United States Army general who last served as the commander of United States Southern Command from 2021 to 2024. Prior to that, she was the commanding general of United States Army North from 2019 to 2021.
On 1 June 1997, the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command expanded his area of responsibility to include the Caribbean and the waters bordering South America, and assumed command and control of JIATF East.
The U.S. Southern Command was activated in 1963, emerging from the U.S. Caribbean Command, established in 1947. Last commander of the U.S. Caribbean Command from January 1961 to June 1963 and first commander of the U.S. Southern Command since June 1963 was Lieutenant General–later General–Andrew P. O'Meara. [23]
Susan Ware, historian, specialist on 20th-century women's political and cultural history, and the history of popular feminism [10] Rainer Weiss, German-American physicist, professor of physics emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, adjunct faculty at Louisiana State University, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 [279]
March 8, 2024 at 5:05 AM. FORT LIBERTY — The U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Liberty will see a new commander, the Department of Defense announced this week.
The current objectives of MARFORSOUTH include the training of Latin American marines and naval infantry, providing disaster relief, and counter-terrorism. [1] In October 1999, Marine Corps Forces South headquarters was moved to Miami, Florida, and grew to be a fully fledged headquarters to assist the Commander of U.S. Southern Command with all Marine Corps activities in Latin America. [1]
For instance, a military member with a family who is assigned to SouthCom in the pay grade of E-1, the most junior pay grade, receives a monthly allowance for housing of $3,456, Ruiz said.
In addition to UNITAS, COMUSNAVSO, participates in navy-to-navy exercises, counter-drug operations, port visits, humanitarian missions, disaster relief, and protocol events. COMUSNAVSO exercises military command and control of all assigned ships and unit, and represents the U.S. Southern Command with respect to naval matters in the region. [3]