A Unified Combatant Command is composed of forces from two or more services, has a broad and continuing mission, and is organized either on a geographical basis (known as "Area Of Responsibility", AOR) or on a functional basis.
Currently (August2005), there are nine Unified Combatant Commands. Five have regional responsibilities, and four have functional responsibilities. Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
The chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the Commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may transmit communications to the Commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands from the President and Secretary of Defense but does not exercise military command over any combatant forces. The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the highest ranking military officer of the United States military, and the principal military advisor to the President of the United States. ...
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A UnifiedCombatantCommand is a United States military group composed of forces from two or more services, has a broad and continuing mission, and is organized either on a geographical basis (known as "Area Of Responsibility", AOR) or on a functional basis.
The chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the combatantcommanders of the UnifiedCombatantCommands.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may transmit communications to the Commanders of the UnifiedCombatantCommands from the President and Secretary of Defense, but does not exercise military command over any combatant forces.
Unified and specified combatantcommands were first described in the NSA of 1947 and the statutory definition of the combatantcommands has not changed since then.
The commanders of combatantcommands exercise combatantcommand (command authority) (COCOM) of assigned forces and are directly responsible to the NCA for the performance of assigned missions and the preparedness of their commands.
Combatantcommanders prescribe the chain of command within their commands and designate the appropriate level of command authority to be exercised by subordinate commanders.
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