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Headquarters Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart Germany
Enables the DoD to work with elements of the US gov and others to a acheive a more stable environment where political and economic growth can take place. |
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Headquarters MacDill AFB, Florida
Promotes cooperation among nations, respons to crises, deters or defeats state and nostate aggression, and supports development and, when necessary, reconstruction in order to establish the conditions for regional security, stability, and prosperity |
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Headquarters: Stuttgart Germany
Covers almost one fifth of the planet, including large portions of Asia, parts of the middle east and the artic and atlantic oceans.
Conducts military ops, international military partnering, and interagency partnering to enhance transatlantic security and defend the US forward |
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HQ: Peterson AFB, CO
conducts homeland defense, civil support, and security cooperation to defend and secure the US and its interests.
AOR includes air, land, and sea approaches to encompass the continental US, alaska, canada, mexico and the surrounding water.
Plans, organizes and executes homeland defense and civil support missions but has few permanently assigned forces
Commands NORAD, a binational command responsible for aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning for canada, alaska, and the US. |
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Headquarters Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart Germany
Committed to supporting US goverment objectives through the delivery and sustainment of effective security cooperation programs that assist certain nations build their security capacity to enable them to better provide for their own defense
Enables the DoD to work with elements of the US gov and others to a acheive a more stable environment where political and economic growth can take place.
Committed to supporting US goverment objectives through the delivery and sustainment of effective security cooperation programs that assist certain nations build their security capacity to enable them to better provide for their own defense |
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HQ: Peterson AFB, CO
lans, organizes and executes homeland defense and civil support missions but has few permanently assigned forces |
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HQ: Peterson AFB, CO
Commands NORAD, a binational command responsible for aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning for canada, alaska, and the US. |
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HQ: Peterson AFB, CO
conducts homeland defense, civil support, and security cooperation to defend and secure the US and its interests. |
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Headquarters: Stuttgart Germany
Conducts military ops, international military partnering, and interagency partnering to enhance transatlantic security and defend the US forward |
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| Covers almost one fifth of the planet, including large portions of Asia, parts of the middle east and the artic and atlantic oceans. |
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| AOR includes air, land, and sea approaches to encompass the continental US, alaska, canada, mexico and the surrounding water. |
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HQ: Peterson AFB, CO
In providing civil support, generally operates through established Joint Task Forces subordinate to the command. An emergency must exceed the capabilities of local, state, and federal agencies before this command becomes involved. In most cases, support will be limited, localized, and specific. |
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HQ: Camp H M Smith, Hawaii
AOR encompasses about half of the earth's surface, stretching form the waters off the west coast of the US to the western boarders of India from Antartica to the North pole |
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HQ: Camp H M Smith, Hawaii
Protects and defends, in concert with other US agencies, the territory of the US, its people and its interests. |
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HQ: Camp H M Smith, Hawaii
Committed to enhancing stability in the Asia-pacific region by proimoting security cooperation, encouraging peaceful development, responding to contingencies, deterring aggression, and when necessary, fighting to win. Based on partnership, presence, and military readiness |
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HQ: Miami, FL
Responsible for providing contingency planning, ops, and security cooperations for Central and South America, the Caribben, and Cuba as well as for force protection of US military resources at these locations. Also responsible for defending the Panama Canal |
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HQ: MacDill AFB, FL
Is the Unified Combatant Command charge with overseeing the various SpecOps Commands of the Armed forces |
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HQ: MacDill AFB, FL
Conducts several covert and clndestine missions, such as unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, psychological operations, civil affairs, direct action, counter terrorism, and wr on drugs operations. Each branch has a specops command unique and capable of running it's on operations but when they work together, they use this joint component command for operation |
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HQ: Scott AFB, IL
Single manager of America's global defense transportation system; tasked with teh coordination of people and transportration assets to allow the US to project and sustain forces, whenever, wherever, and for as long as needed |
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HQ Offutt AFB, Nebraska
Charged with space ops, info ops, missile defense, global commnd and control, ISR, global strike, strategic deterrence, and combating weapons of mass destruction |
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| Provides air defense forces to NORAD; operatios fighter, attack, bomber, ISR, combat search and rescue, battle management, electronic combat, and unmanned aircraft system platforms |
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| Trains, equips and deploys combat ready forces to support combatant commanders around the globes |
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| Develops America's Airman for tomorrow. witht a vision to deliver unrivaled air, space and cyberspace training, initial and advanced technical training, flying traning, medical training, space and missile training, cyber training and professional military and degree granting professional education. Also conducts joint, readiness, and AF security assistance training |
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| Sustains the combat capability of the operations AF by providing highly trained and motivated Airmen and manages mobility and contingency tasking support for combatant commnders |
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| The AF's Newest command; develops and provides combat ready forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations - safe, secure, effective-to support the POTUS and combat commanders |
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| Responsible for organizing, training, and equipping the AF's three ICBM wings, two B-52 stratofortress wings, and hte only B-2 Spirit wings. These three weapons systems make up 2/3 of the nations strategic nuclear triad by providing the land based and airborne nuclear deterrent forces |
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| Delivers war winning tech, acquisition support, sustainment, and expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter |
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| Conducts, research development and test and evaluation and provides acquisition mangement services and logistics support necessary to keep air force weapons systems ready for war |
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| Provides personnel to augment the active duty community to carry out hte warfighting mission with approximately 14% of the total force while spannign a whide variety of missions such as : space, flight testing, special ops, aerial port operations, CE, SF, intelligence, military training, comm, mobility support, transportation, and services |
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| Conducts 2 missions no one else in DoD does: fixed wing and aerial spray missinos to kill mosquitoes in the aftermath of natural disasters and the hurricane hunters who monitor hurricanes for the National weather Services |
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| Is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping mission ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for NORAD, and other combatant commands |
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| Oversees AF Network operations to provide capabilities in, through, and from cyberspace, manages a global network of satellites, and is responsible for space system development and acquisition. |
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| Operates sensors that provide direct attack warning and assessment to USSTRATCOM and NORAD. Develops, acquires, fields, operates, and sustains space systems and fiellds and sustains cyber systems |
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| Provides airlift nd aerial refueling for all of america's armed forces. Provides aeromedical evac and global reach laydown. Uses resources from various organizations and brings them together to form those deployed organizations requried to achieve the specific objectives of any particular mobility operation |
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| Has many special duty and operational support aircraft and plays a crucial role in providing humanitarian support at home and around the world |
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