Up until around 1990, it was annual, but it is now held every two years. The other regional unified commands with headquarters located outside their areas of operations are United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), currently based in Miami, Florida, and United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM), currently based in Stuttgart, Germany.Įxercise Internal Look is one of the Command's primary planning events. CENTCOM's main headquarters is located at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Florida, although a forward headquarters was established in 2002 at Camp As Sayliyah in Doha, Qatar, which transitioned to a new forward headquarters at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in 2009 to serve American strategic interests if the USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR) and Area of Interest (AOI). Of the six American regional unified commands, CENTCOM is one of three regional unified commands whose headquarters are not within its area of operations. Mattis took command from Lieutenant General John Allen, USMC, the deputy commander since July 2008, who took temporary command when the previous commander, General David Petraeus, USA, left to take command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan on 23 June. Austin, USA, who took command from General James Mattis, USMC on 22 March 2013. The current commander of USCENTCOM is General Lloyd J. CENTCOM forces have also been deployed in Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in the past, and although there is a small presence remaining in each of those countries, no substantial U.S. Forces from USCENTCOM (also called CENTCOM) currently are deployed primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan in combat roles and have bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Pakistan, and central Asia in support roles. CENTCOM has been the main American presence in many military operations, including the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), and the Iraq War. Its area of responsibility includes countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, most notably Afghanistan and Iraq. It was originally conceived of as the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF). Department of Defense, established in 1983. The United States Central Command ( USCENTCOM) is a theater-level Unified Combatant Command of the U.S. Emblem of the United States Central Command.
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