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The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense. It was established in 1983, taking over the previous responsibilities of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF). Its Area of Responsibility (AOR) includes the Middle East (including Egypt in Africa ...
Michael Kurilla. Michael Erik Kurilla (born 16 May 1966) [1] is a United States Army general who serves as the 15th commander of United States Central Command since 1 April 2022. [2][3][4][5] He previously served as the commanding general of XVIII Airborne Corps and before that as the chief of staff of United States Central Command. [6][7]
September 2012 - present. Operation Spartan Shield (OSS) is a USCENTCOM (United States Central Command) operation in the Middle East. OSS is commanded by United States Army Central and includes units from all service branches. [citation needed] Task Force Spartan is the U.S. Army component of OSS. [citation needed]
The Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) is a sub-unified command of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). [2] It is responsible for planning special operations throughout the CENTCOM area of responsibility (AOR), planning and conducting peacetime joint/combined special operations training exercises, and orchestrating command and control of peacetime and wartime special operations as ...
According to CENTCOM, the responsibilities of the four ISIS leaders who were killed involved military and technical operations in Iraq. A masked Islamic State soldier poses holding the ISIS flag ...
Four senior ISIS leaders were killed in last month's U.S.-Iraqi military raid in western Iraq including the group's top operations leader in Iraq and its chief bombmaker for whom the United States ...
Current combatant command staff. Michael Kurilla, Commander. Charles Cooper II, Deputy Commander. Brandon R. Tegtmeier, Chief of Staff [1] Nicholas M. Homan, Director, Intelligence (J2) [2] Curt Renshaw, Director, Operations (J3) [3] John P. Cogbill, Deputy Director, Operations Fires and Effects [4] David R. Lopez, Deputy Director, Operations ...
The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...