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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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- c. Air Force forces — (Total personnel strength of 8,600)
- (1) 1 fighter wing (3 sqdns with integral air defense capability)
- (2) 1 light bomber wing
- (3) 1 troop carrier wing
- (4) 1 tactical control sqdn.
- (5) 1 tactical recon. sqdn.
16. Command Arrangements: Theater Command
a. This should be U. S., since this command must be a combined as well as a joint command and U. S. commanders have had considerably more experience in commanding combined and joint commands. Further, should it become necessary to introduce U. S. ground forces, it would be much better to have a U. S. commander already operating as theater commander rather than effect a change at the time U. S. ground forces become involved. All services of the United States, France, and the Associated States will have representatives at the combined headquarters. Similar representation will be necessary at the Joint Operations Center (JOC) to be established.
b. Political considerations and the preponderance of French Union forces may dictate the assignment of theater command to the French, at least during the early
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