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Joint Forces Command

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Active
  
2012 -

Type
  
Command

Country
  
United Kingdom

Joint Forces Command httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenbbcJoi

Branch
  
Royal Navy  British Army  Royal Air Force

Garrison/HQ
  
Eastbury, Hertfordshire

Current commander
  
General Sir Christopher Deverell

The United Kingdom Joint Forces Command (JFC) manages allocated joint capabilities from the three armed services.

Contents

History

The command, which was established following the Levene Report into Defence Reform published in June 2011, achieved Initial Operating Capability in April 2012 and reached Full Operating Capability in April 2013.

Components

On 2 April 2012, the following organisations transferred to the Joint Forces Command, giving JFC a total of some 30,000 military and civil personnel:

  • The Permanent Joint Headquarters (known as PJHQ)
  • British Forces Gibraltar
  • British Forces Cyprus
  • Senior British National Officer, Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory)
  • British Forces South Atlantic Islands
  • Other deployed forces (Afghanistan, Iraq, Brunei, Belize, etc)
  • The Joint Force Headquarters
  • The Joint Force Logistics Component
  • The Joint Counter-Terrorist Training and Advisory Team
  • The Directorate of Special Forces
  • The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
  • The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre
  • Defence Intelligence
  • Surgeon-General's Headquarters and the Joint Medical Command
  • The Joint Arms Control Implementation Group
  • The Defence Centre of Training Support
  • The Joint Force Cyber Group

    • Commanders

    Commanders have been:

  • 2011-2013 Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach
  • 2013-2016 General Sir Richard Barrons
  • 2016-Present General Sir Christopher Deverell

    • References

    Joint Forces Command Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA