The carrier captain is responsible for providing the platform, aviation assets and services required to support missions assigned by the Strike Group Commander.
FORBES: What Is It Like To Be The Commanding Officer Of An Aircraft Carrier?
My last job in the Navy was Commander, Carrier Strike Group Four, from 2002-2004.
FORBES: What Is It Like To Be The Commanding Officer Of An Aircraft Carrier?
Citing a confidential army video and a military report, it said they showed that the German commander who ordered the strike, Col Georg Klein, had not been able to rule out the presence of civilians at the scene before he took action.
The killing of Taliban commander Mullah Nazir in a drone strike comes at a time of important changes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
BBC: Taliban's Mullah Nazir death spells trouble for Pakistan
Government military operations against the rebels are continuing, with the authorities saying that a top Farc commander had been killed in an air strike.
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Mullah Nazir, who has reportedly been killed by a US drone strike, made many enemies as a powerful militant commander in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan region.
But when cell phone pictures were later provided to the U.S. military showing dozens of bodies at the scene of the strike, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen.
Two weeks ago, the Defense Department announced its decision to indefinitely delay the deployment of the Truman carrier strike group to the Middle East, denying our combatant commander in the most volatile region of the world the capabilities he urgently requires.
The first U.S. armed drone attack, which appears to be the first such strike ever, took place in mid-November 2001 and killed the military commander of al Qaeda, Mohammed Atef, in Afghanistan.
The commander of the detention center ordered the transfer because prisoners participating in the hunger strike had covered up security cameras and blocked windows, making it difficult to monitor their health during a protest that has lasted more than two months, said Navy Capt.
There will be foreign policy problems aplenty for the next Commander-in-Chief, from Iraq and Afghanistan to the likelihood of an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, from Russian aggression to North Korean foot-dragging regarding its own nuclear ambitions.
The day after Davis was finally released, a strike on March 17, 2011, killed a reported 36 civilians, as well as a top Taliban commander.
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