Examples of Joint Chiefs of Staff in the following topics:
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- The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are often thought to mark the starting point of a worldwide LGBTQ rights movement.
- Despite the long history of non-heterosexual sexual practices and non-conforming gender roles, the concept of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) rights did not become widely used until the second half of the twentieth century.
- The origin of the term "Boston marriages" refer to two single women living together, independent of men.
- A congressional bill to repeal DADT was enacted in December 2010, specifying that the policy would remain in place until the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certified that repeal would not harm military readiness, followed by a 60-day waiting period.
- President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen sent that certification to Congress on July 22, 2011, which set the end of DADT for September 20, 2011.
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- A commander-in-chief is the person exercising supreme command authority of a nation's military forces; in the US, this person is the president.
- A commander-in-chief is the person exercising supreme command authority of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces.
- According to Article II, Section 2, Clause I of the Constitution, the President of the United States is commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
- The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. chief of defense equivalent, may assist the President and Secretary of Defense in the exercise of their command functions, but the Chairman himself does not independently exercise command over any combatant forces.
- President Abraham Lincoln, as commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John A.
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- This includes the secretary of state and the secretary of defense.
- The specific duties of the Secretary of State include:
- Most of the domestic functions of the Department of State have been transferred to other agencies.
- The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense, which is an Executive Department of the Government of the United States of America .
- Because the Office of Secretary of Defense is vested with legal powers which exceeds those of any commissioned officer, and is second only to the Office of President in the military hierarchy, it has sometimes unofficially been referred to as a de facto "deputy commander-in-chief. " The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal military adviser to the Secretary of Defense and the President.
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- The global reach of the United States is backed by a $15 trillion economy, approximately a quarter of global GDP, and a defense budget of $711 billion, which accounts for approximately 43% of global military spending.
- The current Secretary of State is John Kerry.
- As a share of America's large gross national income (GNI), however, the U.S. contribution of 0.18% ranked last among twenty-two donor states.
- The president holds the title of commander-in-chief of the nation's armed forces and appoints its leaders, the secretary of defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- The Coast Guard is run by the Department of Homeland Security in peacetime and the Department of the Navy in time of war.
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- Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral of the United States Navy, played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces.
- Nimitz was selected Commander in Chief of the U.S.
- -British Combined Chiefs of Staff issued a directive designating the Pacific theater an area of American strategic responsibility.
- Six days later the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) divided the theater into three areas: the Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur), and the South East Pacific area.
- He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for United States and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.
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- King, the Chief of Naval Operations, proposed a plan with similar elements but under Navy command.
- Army Chief of Staff George C.
- Joint Chiefs of Staff but which was ultimately implemented, called for the capture of Tulagi (later Guadalcanal) and the Santa Cruz Islands (Operation Watchtower), the capture of the northeast coast of New Guinea and the central Solomons; and the reduction of Rabaul and related bases.
- The Joint Chiefs responded with a directive that approved the plan using forces already in the theater or en route to it, and delaying its implementation by 60 days.
- The battle consisted of four separate engagements between the opposing forces: the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, the Battle of Surigao Strait, the Battle of Cape Engaño and the Battle off Samar, as well as other actions.
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- Richard Nixon's first Chief of Staff, H.R.
- The roles of the Chief of Staff are both managerial and advisory. the Chief of Staff may select key White House staff and supervise them; structure the White House staff; control the flow of people into the Oval Office; and advise the President on various issues.
- Richard Nixon's first Chief of Staff, H.R.
- Bush's first Chief of Staff, was not thought to be as powerful.
- The Chief of Staff is assisted by one or more Deputy Chiefs of Staff.
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- Congressional staff are employees of the United States Congress or individual members of Congress.
- Congressional staff are employees of the United States Congress or individual members of Congress.
- Each congressional committee has a staff of varying size.
- In 2000, House committees had an average of 68 staff, and Senate committees an average of 46.
- Committee staff includes staff directors, committee counsel, committee investigators, press secretaries, chief clerks and office managers, schedulers, documents clerks, and assistants.
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- The Executive Office of the President (EOP) consists of the immediate and support staff of the President of the United States.
- The Executive Office of the President (EOP) consists of the immediate staff of the President of the United States, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President.
- The EOP is headed by the White House Chief of Staff, currently Jacob Lew.
- Roosevelt's second term in office, the foundations of the modern White House staff were created.
- The staff of the Executive Office of the President is managed by the White House Chief of Staff.
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- The German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship was a secret supplementary protocol of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact, signed on September 28, 1939 by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union after their joint invasion and occupation of sovereign Poland, that delineated the spheres of interest between the two powers.
- It was a secret clause as amended on September 28, 1939 by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union after their joint invasion and occupation of sovereign Poland, and thus after the beginning of World War II.
- The pact delineated the spheres of interest between the two powers, confirmed by the supplementary protocol of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty amended after the joint invasion of Poland.
- This was followed by Soviet annexations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania.
- Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signs the German–Soviet Pact in Moscow, September 28, 1939; behind him are Richard Schulze-Kossens (Ribbentrop's adjutant), Boris Shaposhnikov (Red Army Chief of Staff), Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Pavlov (Soviet translator).