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Uni­fied Com­bat­ant Com­mand (UCC)

The zon­ing of the world into the six com­mands and their “Area of Responsibility”.

Areas of Responsibility

A Uni­fied Com­bat­ant Com­mand (UCC) is a Unit­ed States joint mil­i­tary com­mand 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. Each com­bat­ant com­mand is head­ed by a four star gen­er­al or admi­ral select­ed by the Sec­re­tary of Defense and Pres­i­dent and con­firmed by Congress. 

Com­mands with region­al responsibilities:

	US Cen­tral Com­mand (CENTCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: Mid­dle East, East Africa and Cen­tral Asia Head­quar­ter: MacDill Air Force Base, Tam­pa (Flori­da), USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Lieu­tenant Gen­er­al Mar­tin E. Dempsey, Unit­ed States Army (tem­po­rary until Gen­er­al David Petraeus takes over)		US Euro­pean Com­mand (EUCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: Europe and a part of the Mid­dle East Head­quar­ter: Patch Bar­racks, Stuttgart, Germany Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Gen­er­al Bantz J. Crad­dock, Unit­ed States Army
	US Pacif­ic Com­mand (PACOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: Pacif­ic and Indi­an Ocean (incl. Hawaii and the troops in Alaska) Head­quar­ter: US-Marine-Corps-Base Camp H. M. Smith, Oahu (Hawaii), USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Admi­ral Tim­o­thy J. Keat­ing, Unit­ed States Navy		US North­ern Com­mand (NORTHCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: Northamerica Head­quar­ter: Peter­son Air Force Base in Col­orado Springs, Col­orado, USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Gen­er­al Vic­tor E. Ren­uart, Jr., Unit­ed States Air Force
	US South­ern Com­mand (SOUTHCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: Latinamerica Head­quar­ter: Mia­mi, Flori­da, USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Admi­ral James G. Stavridis, Unit­ed States Navy		US Africa Com­mand (AFRICOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: African con­ti­nent (exclud­ing Egypt) Head­quar­ter: Kel­ley Bar­racks in Stuttgart, Germany Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Gen­er­al William E. Ward, Unit­ed States Army

Com­mands with fun­tion­al responsibilities:

	US Joint Forces Com­mand (JFCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: joint con­cept devel­op­ment and exper­i­men­ta­tion, joint train­ing, joint inter­op­er­abil­i­ty and inte­gra­tion, and the pri­ma­ry con­ven­tion­al force provider Head­quar­ter: Nor­folk, Vir­ginia, USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Gen­er­al James N. Mat­tis, Unit­ed States Marine Corps		US Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand (SOCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: Pro­vide ful­ly capa­ble Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Forces to defend the Unit­ed States and its inter­ests. Plan and syn­chro­nize oper­a­tions against ter­ror­ist networks. Head­quar­ter: MacDill Air Force Base in Flori­da, USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Admi­ral Eric T. Olson, Unit­ed States Navy
	US Strate­gic Com­mand (STRATCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: Con­trol of the US nuclear weapons, space oper­a­tions and glob­al mis­sile defense Head­quar­ter: Offutt Air Force Base in Nebras­ka, USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Gen­er­al Kevin P. Chilton, Unit­ed States Air Force		US Trans­porta­tion Com­mand (TRANSCOM) Area of respon­si­bil­i­ty: To pro­vide air, land and sea trans­porta­tion for the Depart­ment of Defense, both in time of peace and time of war Head­quar­ter: Scott Air Force Base in Illi­nois, USA Com­mand­ing Offi­cer: Gen­er­al Dun­can J. McN­abb, Unit­ed States Air Force

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