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Batman47 Board Founder/CNC User is Offline Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 394 Karma: 5 applaud / smite 425 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:12 pm    Post subject: Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (JTF-HOA) · Quote Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa http://www.hoa.centcom.mil On duty in Africa Slide Show http://www.army.mil/-slideshows/2006/12/04/819-on-duty-in-africa New U.S. Task Force Commander, Staff Prepare for Posting to Africa 061119-N-1328C-455 Balbala, Djibouti (Nov. 19, 2006) - U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Wendy Halsey assigned to Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (JTF-HOA) hands out soccer balls to students in Balbala, Djibouti. Halsey's family and friends collected more than 300 soccer balls to donate to schools and orphanages through out the Horn of Africa. JTF-HOA is a unit of United States Central Command. The organization conducts operations and training to assist partner nations to combat terrorism in order to establish a secure environment and enable regional stability. More than 1,500 people from each branch of the U.S. military, civilian employees, coalition forces and partner nations make up the organization. U.S. photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Eric A. Clement (RELEASED) http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=41275 By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2007 – The new headquarters commander and staff for Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa are nearing the end of training before their posting to a region of vital strategic importance in the global war against terrorism. Navy Rear Adm. James M. Hart is slated to take command of the task force, which has its headquarters at Camp Lemonier, in Djibouti City, the capital of Djibouti, in early February. Hart and his staff have been preparing for their one-year assignment in Africa since mid-October through specialized training provided by U.S. Joint Forces Command, in Suffolk, Va., Hart told reporters today during a phone interview from Suffolk. That training, he said, has included two trips to Africa. Hart called the training for his new assignment “extraordinary” and said it stresses interagency cooperation and emphasizes diplomacy, defense and development. “I think it’s been very advantageous that I’ve been given the opportunity since mid-October to get out and about and go to places like the State Department and spend time with (the United States Agency for International Development) and learn the interagency process,” Hart said. As CJTF-HOA commander, Hart will command 1,800 to 2,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, and coalition partners. The task force’s area of responsibility covers operations in Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia in Africa, and Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula. Hart said the task force’s mission centers on conflict prevention, stability operations and helping countries develop good governance practices. The United States’ policy in Somalia is to help its citizens regain political and economic stability, to counter terrorism, and to provide humanitarian assistance, the admiral said. “We are about helping Africans help themselves,” Hart said, noting CJTF-HOA conducts joint military training and border security missions with the Ethiopian, Kenyan and other regional militaries. Recent fighting in Somalia featured Islamic terrorists being defeated by moderate forces. That conflict “doesn’t really change our mission or our objectives” in Somalia, Hart said. The task force oversees a region that’s vital to U.S. national security interests, Hart said. Offering a better life to people living in Africa and the Middle East is especially important because of the global war against terrorism, he said. “We’re arriving there early enough with an opportunity to help shape the environment, work towards a more secure environment, and hopefully, to allow people the opportunity to choose a direction to go in their lives that steers them away from extremism,” Hart said. “And, that’s what I think is one of our primary reasons for being there.” http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?id=2742 Biographies: Rear Adm. James M. Hart, USN http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=137 U.S. Working With Countries in Horn of Africa to Go After al Qaeda By Kathleen T. Rhem American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2007 – The United States will track down al Qaeda operatives wherever they try to find safe haven, including in the Horn of Africa, a senior Defense Department official said today. “We have, for some time, been concerned about al Qaeda operating in that region, and that’s why we’re working with countries throughout that (area of responsibility) to identify track, seek, capture and, if necessary, kill al Qaeda working, taking safe haven, operating in that region,” Bryan Whitman, deputy assistant defense secretary for media relations, told reporters today. He did not, however, confirm media reports that the United States this week carried out an air strike on an al Qaeda target in Somalia, on Africa’s eastern coast. “The nature of some of our operations are such that I just won’t be able to provide you much information (on every occasion),” he said. A strike by a U.S. AC-130 gunship on Jan. 7 targeted a senior terrorist leader in Somalia. Officials have not yet released information on that mission’s success. A senior defense official, speaking on background, stressed that some operations are better left unpublicized. “There are operations that we conduct that are of the nature that don’t lend themselves to public discourse,” the official said. “But I think we all understand that the success of some of these operations is predicated on our ability to conduct them in the ways in which we have to.” The official noted that many military operations are never discussed in public. “The very nature of our special operations, for example, when we do special operations, are not something that lend themselves to being able to be discussed in a public kind of way, because their success is predicated on their ability to be carried out in a fashion that is not on the front page of every newspaper,” he said. The official also stressed that operations in the Horn of Africa are conducted in cooperation with governments in the region. “We are working very closely with countries in the region because of the fact that there are known terrorists that are seeking to try to take harbor, to plan, and to conduct operations in that region,” he said. http://www.defenselink.mil/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2804 _________________ U. S. Navy Veteran  August 1977 to July 1983 Yoeman Second Class, with student pilot's license
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