Thurman, Combined Forces Command commander.

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Nonetheless he had done no more than rub shoulders with it, serving out the war mostly in Anti-Aircraft Command and Combined Operations HQ.

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NICE, combined with England's command-and-control health care system, helps keep health costs far lower in that country than here.

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The fine-grained control that the command software enables combined with a design that is more electrical than mechanical creates enormous flexibility in how the different systems can be coordinated.

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In 2012 the number of successful pirate seizures of merchant ships fell from a 2009 figure of 38 to 21 according to the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) command in Bahrain but another statistic published by the group highlights a more troubling trend.

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The new NATO Response Force and Allied Command-Transformation in Norfolk are examples of combined allied transformation efforts.

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Qatar, a country about the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, is where the U.S. Central Command has been based since the buildup for the U.S.-led war began.

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From 2009 to 2011, she served as Coordinator for the Interagency Provincial Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and as Senior Civilian Representative for the Combined Joint Task-Force 82 with the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command-East at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

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