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USJFCOM
as Force Provider
As DoD’s
joint force provider, U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM)
assigns nearly all conventional forces based in
the continental U.S., providing trained and capable forces
to commanders in the field. Building a joint force requires
a considerable degree of coordination with active, National
Guard and reserve elements of the armed forces to ensure
the deployment of a task-organized integrated team. A joint
force may also include elements of the U.S. Coast Guard.
With this joint force provider responsibility, USJFCOM provides
informed military force options for supporting operations.
For example, an Air Force general, as a joint task force
commander, could command and control the activities of an
Army airborne and special operations troops, a Marine expeditionary
unit, an Air Force squadron, and a Navy aircraft carrier.
That joint force commander would subsequently report to a
senior commander with responsibility for all. Military activities
in a particular assigned region of the world commonly called
an area of responsibility (AOR).
USJFCOM controls more than 80 percent of all continental
U.S.-based combat ready conventional forces. In 2006, USJFCOM
developed recommendations and coordinated the deployment
of more than 290,000 personnel in support of combatant commanders.
In October 2006, USJFCOM gained responsibility for management
of assignment of individual augmentees to deployed units.
In addition
to providing conventional forces, USJFCOM supports joint
task forces with joint enabling capabilities like the
Joint Enabling Capabilities
Command and its subordinate commands like the Joint Communications Support
Element (JCSE), the Joint Public Affairs Support Element
(JPASE) and the Intelligence Quick Reaction Team (I-QRT).
• JCSE can globally deploy within hours of notification to
provide command, control, communications and computers (C4)
support to RCCs and U.S. Special Operations Command. JCSE
provides communications packages tailored to the specific
needs of a full joint task force headquarters and/or a joint
special operations task force.
• JPASE provides trained, equipped and skilled teams with operational
joint public affairs expertise to include planning and media
operations.
• I-QRT provide military and civilian intelligence professionals
with targeting and collection management expertise to a JTF
rapidly or during events leading up to crisis or contingency
operations.
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