Allied Joint Command Lisbon
The Allied Joint Command Lisbon ( Lisbon or JC Joint Headquarters Lisbon) was one of three main commands of NATO at the operational level and was under the Allied Command Operations. It was based in Oeiras, near Lisbon in Portugal. In June 2011 it was decided to dissolve the JC Lisbon. As of December 31, 2012, the command was finally deactivated.
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History
In April 1949, Portugal joined NATO and is thus one of the founding nations Selbiger. Since 1950 there were plans for an Atlantic Command on the Iberian Peninsula IBERLANT that are not realized. The withdrawal of France from the structures of NATO in 1965 served as a catalyst for the following decisions. In November 1966, the North Atlantic Council approves the establishment of IBERLANT. Lisbon, Portugal's capital is a candidate for the deployment of the new commands. Other possible locations were Gibraltar, Casablanca and Brest. 1967 agreed to the NATO Military Committee on the proposal to locate the new headquarters in Portugal. This happened in a temporary building. 1969, was to build a project, the cost of which amounted to 6.2 million U.S. dollars, started at the permanent headquarters of the IBERLANT in Reducto Gomes Freire, Oeiras.
Then the villa in Sintra was abandoned in March 1972 and the bar moved to the building complex in Oeiras. On October 28, 1972, the flags of NATO and Portugal were then hoisted over the new IBERLANT headquarters. The command took over first rear admiral Eugene B. Fluckley of the U.S. Navy. On September 18, 1982, the commander of items from the Defence Committee of the North Atlantic Council Commander IBERLANT ( COMIBERLANT ) to the Commander -in- Chief IBERLANT ( CINCIBERLANT ) is promoted and the Portuguese Vice- Admiral Ilídio Elias da Costa used as the first commander of this new post.
In January 1995, the Portuguese Navy moved its fleet headquarters in the building complex of the IBERLANT in Oeiras. On 1 September 1999 the commander of items was again upgraded, now to Commander -in- Chief South Atlantic ( CINCSOUTHLANT ), and then took over as the regional NATO command a much larger area of responsibility. In addition, the headquarters now in South Atlantic Regional Headquarters ( RHQ SOUTHLANT ) has been renamed.
On 12 June 2003 SOUTHLANT was assumed in consequence of the transformation of NATO, after the conversion of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic ( SACLANT ) to the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation ( SACT ), the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. In March 2004 CINCSOUTHLANT was then converted to the Allied Joint Command Headquarters Lisbon ( Lisbon JHQ ). From 19 October 2005 to February 8, 2006 JHQ Lisbon commanded the disaster relief team of NATO in Pakistan in the wake of the earthquake follow-up. In June 2005, JC Lisbon with the support of the African Union Mission in Sudan ( AMIS) was commissioned. As part of this mission was JC Lisbon for the coordination of air transport for African Union ( AU) troops responsible, which were used as part of AMIS in Darfur. In addition, individual staff officers were assigned to support the AU. Among other things, the post of Senior Military Liaison Officer to the AU, NATO was set up. This post will be filled by a colonel or comparably of the Joint Command Lisbon. It changes every six months. The AMIS support mission ended on December 31, 2007. Since 1 July 2008 JC Lisbon is responsible for the command of the NATO Response Force.
After the return of France to the integrated NATO command structure in 2009 " was awarded" France the post of Commander JC Lisbon in Lisbon and the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia.
Organization
JC Lisbon is conceived as a purposive, small headquarters, the rapid response throughout the area of responsibility (area of responsibility ) of the NATO and beyond, can be used. Once activated, it is able to serve as a sea-based command center during the beginning of operations for peacekeeping or combat missions.
This contrast to the two sister commands under the Allied Command Operations, the Joint Force Commands ( JFC ) Brunssum, Naples and also illustrates the chosen name. Because the two JFCS each have them imputed land, air and maritime components, while JC Lisbon has no associated components.
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The command had until 2009 an admiral in the U.S. Navy, who was also deputy commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe, Commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and Commander of the Striking and Support Forces NATO. After the reintegration of France into NATO's command structure of these items, however, is occupied by a Frenchman. Since July 20, 2009, this is Lieutenant General Philippe Stoltz. The Deputy Commander is a Lieutenant General of the Portuguese Air Force.